Moraxella catarrhalis Activates Murine Macrophages through Multiple Toll Like Receptors and Has Reduced Clearance in Lungs from TLR4 Mutant Mice

• Ferdaus Hassan ,

  * E-mail: hassanmf@umkc.edu (FH); guxx@mail.nih.gov (XG)

  Current address: Shock/Trauma Research Center, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

  Affiliation Vaccine Research Section, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

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• Dabin Ren,

  Current address: Division of Basic Medical Sciences, Mercer University School of Medicine, Macon, Georgia, United States of America

  Affiliation Vaccine Research Section, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

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• Wenhong Zhang,

  Current address: National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, China

  Affiliation Vaccine Research Section, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

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• Tod J. Merkel,

  Affiliation Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Xin-Xing Gu

  * E-mail: hassanmf@umkc.edu (FH); guxx@mail.nih.gov (XG)

  Current address: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Respiratory Diseases Branch, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

  Affiliation Vaccine Research Section, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

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