Editorial: Investigating lung biology, metabolism, and host susceptibility in mycobacterial infections
Pallavi Chandra1, Andrew T Roth2, Katharina Ronacher3,4
1Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States.
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
|June 8, 2026
Abstract
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