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The Need for Respiratory Defense Mechanisms
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| Description: | The air-blood barrier is both extensive in surface area and very thin. The distance infectious organisms must travel from the air space to the circulation is only 1 micron, making the lungs a very vulnerable site for infection to colonize the tissues. |
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