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Samuel E Weinberg1, Navdeep S Chandel2
1Department of Pathology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Abstract:
Antibiotics improve clinical outcomes independent of their antibacterial effects. In this issue of Immunity, Almeida et al. and Colaço et al. demonstrate that antibiotic impairment of mitochondrial ribosomes modulates both T-cell-dependent inflammation and host tolerance to infection.
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