Boosting efferocytosis in alveolar space using BCG vaccine to protect host against influenza pneumonia

• Sanjay Mukherjee,

  Affiliation Center for Pulmonary and Infectious Diseases Control (CPIDC), University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, TX, United States of America

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• Renuka Subramaniam,

  Current address: Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

  Affiliation Center for Pulmonary and Infectious Diseases Control (CPIDC), University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, TX, United States of America

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• Han Chen,

  Affiliation Center for Pulmonary and Infectious Diseases Control (CPIDC), University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, TX, United States of America

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• Anthony Smith,

  Affiliation Center for Pulmonary and Infectious Diseases Control (CPIDC), University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, TX, United States of America

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• Shiva Keshava,

  Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, TX, United States of America

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• Homayoun Shams

  * E-mail: homayoun.shams@uthct.edu

  Affiliation Center for Pulmonary and Infectious Diseases Control (CPIDC), University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, TX, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3857-8927

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