Inhaled Corticosteroid Drugs Worsen Bacterial Lung Infections in COPD (2 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Inhaled Corticosteroid Drugs Worsen Bacterial Lung Infections in COPD (2 of 3)

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Image of Streptococcus pneumoniae within a lung alveolar macrophage. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 28, 2019, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by A. Singanayagam at Imperial College London in London, UK; and colleagues was titled, "Inhaled corticosteroid suppression of cathelicidin drives dysbiosis and bacterial infection in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease."

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Aran Singanayagam, Ph.D.

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