Editorial: Bacterial Exotoxins: How Bacteria Fight the Immune System
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1 Bacterial Pathogenesis Unit, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA, 2 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, 3 Zentrum für Infektiologie, Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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