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The present study devised a rapid Lugol’s iodine-based protocol to obtain structurally intact bacterial ghost cells (GCs), which effectively induced pro-inflammatory macrophage polarization, upregulating M1 markers and cytokines, while downregulating IL-10, an anti-inflammatory cytokine. This suggested a promising therapeutic strategy for combatting bacterial infections via modulating macrophage immune responses
