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Editorial
. 2017 Jan;72(1):10-12.
doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2016-209180. Epub 2016 Oct 31.

Macrolides, inflammation and the lung microbiome: untangling the web of causality

Robert P Dickson  1 , Alison Morris  2   3
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Editorial

Macrolides, inflammation and the lung microbiome: untangling the web of causality

Robert P Dickson et al. Thorax. 2017 Jan.
No abstract available

Keywords: COPD Pathology; Macrophage Biology; Respiratory Infection.

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Competing interests None declared.

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Macrolide antibiotics perturb a complex web of cause and effect in the ecosystem of diseased lungs.
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