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Azithromycin alters macrophage phenotype and pulmonary compartmentalization during lung infection with Pseudomonas.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Jun 2010
Feola David J, Garvy Beth A, Cory Theodore J, Birket Susan E, Hoy Heather, Hayes Don, Murphy Brian S
Abstract excerpt
Infection with mucoid strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in chronic inflammatory diseases of the airway is difficult to eradicate and can cause excessive inflammation. The roles of alternatively activated and regulatory subsets of macrophages in this pathophysiological process are not well characterized. We previously demonstrated that azithromycin induces an alternatively activated macrophage-like phenotype in...
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