toxins Review Impact of Bacterial Toxins in the Lungs 1,2,3, , 4,5, 3 2 Rudolf Lucas * y, Yalda Hadizamani y, Joyce Gonzales , Boris Gorshkov , Thomas Bodmer 6, Yves Berthiaume 7, Ueli Moehrlen 8, Hartmut Lode 9, Hanno Huwer 10, Martina Hudel 11, Mobarak Abu Mraheil 11, Haroldo Alfredo Flores Toque 1,2, 11 4,5,12,13, , Trinad Chakraborty and Jürg Hamacher * y 1 Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, Augusta, GA 30912, USA; hfl
[email protected] 2 Vascular Biology Center, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, Augusta, GA 30912, USA;
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[email protected] 4 Lungen-und Atmungsstiftung, Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland;
[email protected] 5 Pneumology, Clinic for General Internal Medicine, Lindenhofspital Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland 6 Labormedizinisches Zentrum Dr. Risch, Waldeggstr. 37 CH-3097 Liebefeld, Switzerland;
[email protected] 7 Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada;
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[email protected] 9 Insitut für klinische Pharmakologie, Charité, Universitätsklinikum Berlin, Reichsstrasse 2, D-14052 Berlin, Germany;
[email protected] 10 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Voelklingen Heart Center, 66333