{"id":107299,"date":"2020-05-19T13:42:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T20:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/scientists-discover-immune-scars-on-patients-with-lung-infections"},"modified":"2020-05-19T13:42:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T20:42:45","slug":"scientists-discover-immune-scars-on-patients-with-lung-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/scientists-discover-immune-scars-on-patients-with-lung-infections","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover \u2018immune scars\u2019 on patients with lung infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-immune-scars-on-patients-with-lung-infections.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Patients recovering from severe lung infections develop \u201cimmunological scars\u201d that stifle their body\u2019s immune response and heighten their risk of contracting pneumonia, a common killer of COVID-19 sufferers, researchers said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Studies in both humans and mice showed that the body\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/immune+response\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">immune response<\/a> is temporarily switched off after some severe infections, rendering <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/patients\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">patients<\/a> more vulnerable to new bacterial or viral diseases.<\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers from the University of Melbourne\u2019s Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity and the University Hospital of Nantes found that the cells that form the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/immune+system\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">immune system<\/a>\u2019s first line of defence\u2014macrophages\u2014were \u201cparalysed\u201d after severe <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/infection\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">infection<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patients recovering from severe lung infections develop \u201cimmunological scars\u201d that stifle their body\u2019s immune response and heighten their risk of contracting pneumonia, a common killer of COVID-19 sufferers, researchers said Monday. Studies in both humans and mice showed that the body\u2019s immune response is temporarily switched off after some severe infections, rendering patients more vulnerable [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}