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Editorial: Mucosal microbiota immunomodulation of the gut-lung axis
Yuseok Moon1,2, Susanta Pahari3, Shikha Negi4
1Laboratory of Food Systems Analytics, Department of Data Science, School of Data Science, Pusan National University, Busan, Republic of Korea.
Frontiers in Immunology
|November 10, 2025
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