Phoibe Renema, Jean-Francois Pittet, Angela P Brandon, Sixto M Leal, Steven Gu, Grace Promer, Andrew Hackney, Phillip Braswell, Andrew Pickering, Grace Rafield, Sarah Voth, Ron Balczon, Mike T Lin, K Adam Morrow, Jessica Bell, Jonathon P Audia, Diego Alvarez, Troy Stevens, Brant M Wagener
BACKGROUND: Bacterial pneumonia and sepsis are both common causes of end-organ dysfunction, especially in immunocompromised and critically ill patients. Pre-clinical data demonstrate that bacterial pneumonia and sepsis elicit the production of cytotoxic tau and amyloids from pulmonary endothelial cells, which cause lung and brain injury in naïve animal subjects, independent of the primary infection. The contribution of infection-elicited cytotoxic tau and amyloids to end-organ dysfunction has not been examined in the clinical setting...
2024: PloS One