Critical Role of Macrophages and Their Activation via MyD88-NFκB Signaling in Lung Innate Immunity to Mycoplasma pneumoniae

• Jen-Feng Lai,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Carlene L. Zindl,

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Lynn B. Duffy,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• T. Prescott Atkinson,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Yong Woo Jung,

  Current address: Department of Immunobiology, Yale University Medical School, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Nico van Rooijen,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Vrije University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Ken B. Waites,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Duncan C. Krause,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• David D. Chaplin

  * E-mail: dchaplin@uab.edu

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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