By promoting the unbalance of regulatory systems of a healthy organism and by favoring the development of somatic comorbidities, anthropogenic ambient air pollution results in the severer clinical course of an infectious process, its more prolonged duration, and the more frequent incidence of complications, the chronic pattern of the process, and the development of multidrug resistance in disease pathogens.
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Савилов et al. (2011) studied this question.