The role and importance of neutrophils in cancer has become increasingly apparent over
the past decade. Neutrophils accumulate in the peripheral blood of patients with cancer …

Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a distinct clinical entity and differs from acute liver
failure and decompensated cirrhosis in timing, presence of acute precipitant, course of …

Aspergillus fumigatus is one of the most ubiquitous of the airborne saprophytic fungi.
Humans and animals constantly inhale numerous conidia of this fungus. The conidia are …

Melioidosis, caused by the gram-negative saprophyte Burkholderia pseudomallei, is a
disease of public health importance in southeast Asia and northern Australia that is …

The importance of neutropenia in the risk of serious infection in patients with cancer who are
receiving cytotoxic chemotherapy was first recognized nearly 30 years ago1. Since then …

Neutrophils, which are the most abundant circulating leukocytes in humans, are the first line
of defense against bacterial and fungal infections. Recent studies have reported the role and …

OBJECTIVES: Severe alcoholic hepatitis has high short-term mortality. The aim of this study
was to test the hypothesis that treatment of patients with alcoholic hepatitis with granulocyte …

Local immune responses serve to contain infections by pathogens to the gut while
preventing pathogen dissemination to systemic sites. Several subsets of T cells in the gut (T …

Neutrophils are vital for the innate immune system's control of pathogens and neutrophil
deficiency can render the host susceptible to life-threatening infections. Neutrophil …

Neutrophils play a critical role in the prevention of invasive fungal infections. Whereas
mouse studies have demonstrated the role of various neutrophil pathogen recognition …