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Sex and Gender Differences in Bacterial Infections

Published:2022-10-20 Issue:10 Volume:90 Page:
ISSN:0019-9567
Container-title:Infection and Immunity
language:en
Short-container-title:Infect Immun

Author:

Dias Sara P.¹²³^ORCID,Brouwer Matthijs C.¹³,van de Beek Diederik¹³^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Neurology, Amsterdam Neuroscience, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2. Department of Neurology, Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Lisboa Central, Lisbon, Portugal

3. ESCMID Study Group for Infections of the Brain (ESGIB), Basel, Switzerland

Abstract

There is a growing awareness of the importance of sex and gender in medicine and research. Women typically have stronger immune responses to self and foreign antigens than men, resulting in sex-based differences in autoimmunity and infectious diseases.

Funder

European Academy of Neurology

European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

European Research Council

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Immunology,Microbiology,Parasitology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/iai.00283-22

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