Tag: Influenza Virus

  • Decoding the Gut-Lung Axis: How Gut Microbiota Shapes the Battlefield Against Respiratory Viruses

    Decoding the Gut-Lung Axis: How Gut Microbiota Shapes the Battlefield Against Respiratory Viruses

    In a groundbreaking study recently published in Cell Host & Microbe, researchers from the Georgia State University Institute for Biomedical Sciences have unveiled an important connection between the composition of gut microbiota and the severity of respiratory viral infections (RVIs). The paper, titled “Intestinal Microbiota Programming of Alveolar Macrophages Influences Severity of Respiratory Viral Infection,”…