Infection and Inflammation: Potential Triggers of Sudden Infant Deaths

• Main Author: Amanda Cox (auth)
• Other Authors: Eugenie Ruth Lumbers (auth), Caroline Blackwell (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Medicine; Virus infection; Sudden unexpected death in infancy; sudden infant death syndrome; Stillbirths; cigarette smoke; Risk factors; Animal Models; Mechanisms of Death; sex of infant; interactions between environmental and genetic risk factors
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

There is a growing body of evidence that infectious agents or their products contribute to events leading to unexpected infant deaths. This issue summarizes the current information on the interactions between genetic background of the infant, environmental and developmental risk factors, and the mic...