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Antibiotics as Anti-Inflammatory and Immunomodulatory Agents

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  1. Division of Pathogenesis and Disease Control Department of Infectious Diseases, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, 1-1 Hasama, Oita, 879-5593, Japan

    Jun-ichi Kadota

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  1. Department of Pediatrics School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC, 27157-1081, USA

    Bruce K. Rubin

  2. First Department of Medicine, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, 8-1 Kawada-Cho, Shinjuku, Tokyo, 162-8666, Japan

    Jun Tamaoki

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Kadota, Ji. (2005). Immune system. In: Rubin, B.K., Tamaoki, J. (eds) Antibiotics as Anti-Inflammatory and Immunomodulatory Agents. Progress in Inflammation Research. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-7643-7310-5_7

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