{"id":229693,"date":"2026-01-23T23:25:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T05:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/abstract-secondary-bacterial-infections-are-a-common-complication-in-influenza-a-infection-but-targets-for-prevention-are-lacking"},"modified":"2026-01-23T23:25:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T05:25:25","slug":"abstract-secondary-bacterial-infections-are-a-common-complication-in-influenza-a-infection-but-targets-for-prevention-are-lacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/abstract-secondary-bacterial-infections-are-a-common-complication-in-influenza-a-infection-but-targets-for-prevention-are-lacking","title":{"rendered":"Abstract: Secondary bacterial infections are a common complication in influenza A infection, but targets for prevention are lacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/abstract54.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Secondary bacterial <i>infection<\/i>s are a common complication in influenza A <i>infection<\/i>, but targets for prevention are lacking.<\/p>\n<p>Here, Susanne Herold &amp; team suggest that targeting neutrophil-driven alveolar macrophage death in severe influenza pneumonia strengthens host defense and prevents the transition to secondary bacterial <i>infection<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p>The figure shows leukocyte infiltration in mouse lung tissue caused by pneumococcal <i>infection<\/i> a week after influenza A infection.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<sup>1<\/sup>Department of Medicine V, Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), member of the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany.<\/p>\n<p><sup>2<\/sup>Institute of Lung Health (ILH), Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany.<\/p>\n<p><sup>3<\/sup>Excellence Cluster Cardio-Pulmonary Institute (CPI), Hessen, Germany.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/abstract-secondary-bacterial-infections-are-a-common-complication-in-influenza-a-infection-but-targets-for-prevention-are-lacking\">Continue reading \u201cAbstract: Secondary bacterial infections are a common complication in influenza A infection, but targets for prevention are lacking\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secondary bacterial infections are a common complication in influenza A infection, but targets for prevention are lacking. Here, Susanne Herold &amp; team suggest that targeting neutrophil-driven alveolar macrophage death in severe influenza pneumonia strengthens host defense and prevents the transition to secondary bacterial infection: The figure shows leukocyte infiltration in mouse lung tissue caused by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229693","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}