Circumventing Y. pestis Virulence by Early Recruitment of Neutrophils to the Lungs during Pneumonic Plague.
Pneumonic plague is a fatal disease caused by Yersinia pestis that is associated with a delayed immune response in the lungs.Because neutrophils are the first immune cells recruited to sites of infection, we investigated the mechanisms responsible for their delayed homing to the lung.During the first 24 hr after pulmonary infection with a new belia