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Commensals shape the immune system

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  1. Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, Villejuif, France

    Laurence Zitvogel & Guido Kroemer

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  1. Laurence Zitvogel
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Correspondence to Guido Kroemer.

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L.Z. holds patents dealing with the intestinal microbiota and its manipulation for cancer treatment. L.Z. and G.K. are co-founders of everImmune.

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Zitvogel, L., Kroemer, G. Commensals shape the immune system. Nat Rev Immunol 21, 615 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41577-021-00606-y

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