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CORRECTION article

Front. Pharmacol.

Sec. Ethnopharmacology

Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fphar.2025.1656368

This article is part of the Research TopicNovel Natural Therapies for Infectious Diseases Using Computational and Pharmacological ApproachesView all 5 articles

Respiratory virus-induced bacterial dysregulation in pediatric airway tissue and the dual actions of Echinacea in reducing complications

Provisionally accepted
Selvarani  VimalanathanSelvarani Vimalanathan1*Mahfuza  SreyaMahfuza Sreya2Ranganayaki  NandanavanamRanganayaki Nandanavanam3Roland  SchoopRoland Schoop4Giuseppe  GancitanoGiuseppe Gancitano5Saba  SaberiSaba Saberi6Anna  MalikovskaiaAnna Malikovskaia6James  HudsonJames Hudson6
  • 1Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
  • 2Women+ and Children’s Health Sciences, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
  • 3Applied Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
  • 4Medical Department, A.Vogel AG, Roggwil, Switzerland
  • 5Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, 50134, Florence, Italy
  • 6Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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Keywords: Pediatrics, EpiAirway viral-bacterial superinfections, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, respiratory syncytial virus, Human parainfluenza virus, Rhinovirus, Echinacea purpurea.

Received: 30 Jun 2025; Accepted: 29 Jul 2025.

Copyright: © 2025 Vimalanathan, Sreya, Nandanavanam, Schoop, Gancitano, Saberi, Malikovskaia and Hudson. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence: Selvarani Vimalanathan, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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