TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Innate Immunity A1 - Levinson, Warren A1 - Chin-Hong, Peter A1 - Joyce, Elizabeth A. A1 - Nussbaum, Jesse A1 - Schwartz, Brian PY - 2022 T2 - Review of Medical Microbiology & Immunology: A Guide to Clinical Infectious Diseases, 17e AB - The innate immune system is composed of physical barriers, cells, and circulating factors that are always active and ready to repel microbes. They form a boundary between you and the viruses, bacteria, and fungi that live on and inside you. Innate immune cells also clean up debris and dying cells. Advantages of the innate immune system are that it responds rapidly and targets molecular patterns widely shared among microbes. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1190864537 ER -