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. 2017 May 16;46(5):768-770.
doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2017.04.027.

You Can Breathe Easy: IFNλ Handles Flu without Triggering a Damaging Inflammatory Response

Bridget A Robinson  1 , Timothy J Nice  2
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You Can Breathe Easy: IFNλ Handles Flu without Triggering a Damaging Inflammatory Response

Bridget A Robinson et al. Immunity. .
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Type III interferon (IFNλ) and type I IFN (IFNα/β) have overlapping antiviral activities in the lung. In this issue of Immunity, Galani et al. (2017) identify a critical early role for IFNλ, not shared by IFNα/β, in protection of the lung following influenza virus infection.

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