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Erratum: Microplastics, potential threat to patients with lung diseases
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This entry is an erratum correcting a previously published article on microplastics as a potential threat to patients with lung diseases, providing updated or corrected information to the original study. No new scientific findings are presented beyond the correction to the prior publication.
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/ftox.2022.958414.].
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