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Front. Immunol., 01 October 2015
Sec. Microbial Immunology
This article is part of the Research Topic Causes for increased susceptibility to Mycobacterium tuberculosis-A close view of the immune system View all 8 articles

Corrigendum: Quantity and Quality of Inhaled Dose Predicts Immunopathology in Tuberculosis

  • 1Department of Medicine, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
  • 2Section of Infectious Diseases, Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA

A corrigendum on

Quantity and quality of inhaled dose predicts immunopathology in tuberculosis
by Fennelly KP, Jones-López EC. Front Immunol. (2015) 6:313. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2015.00313

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The original article has been updated.

Conflict of Interest Statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

Keywords: tuberculosis, inhaled dose, pathology, inoculum, immune response

Citation: Fennelly KP and Jones-López EC (2015) Corrigendum: Quantity and quality of inhaled dose predicts immunopathology in tuberculosis. Front. Immunol. 6:511. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2015.00511

Received: 09 September 2015; Accepted: 18 September 2015;
Published: 01 October 2015

Edited and reviewed by: Laurel L. Lenz, University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA

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*Correspondence: Kevin P. Fennelly, kevin.fennelly@verizon.net

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