Consensus statements for medical practice: Biological agents and lung disease [Abridged English translation by the Japanese Respiratory Society]

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Yamate Medical Center, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Yamate Medical Center, 3-22-1 Hyakunin-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-0073. Japan. Electronic address: tokuda@car.ocn.ne.jp.
• ² Department of Epidemiology and Pharmacoepidemiology of Rheumatic Diseases, Institute of Rheumatology, Tokyo Women׳s Medical University, 10-22 Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 173-0004, Japan. Electronic address: harigai.masayoshi@twmu.ac.jp.
• ³ Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Toho University, 2-17-6 Ohashi, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8515 Japan. Electronic address: hideto.kameda@med.toho-u.ac.jp.
• ⁴ Infection Control Team, Osaka University Hospital, 2-15 Yamadaoka, Suita-shi, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. Electronic address: tomono@hp-infect.med.osaka-u.ac.jp.
• ⁵ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Saitama Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, 1696 Itai, Kumagaya-shi, Saitama 360-0105, Japan. Electronic address: takayanagi.noboru@pref.saitama.lg.jp.
• ⁶ Research Division for Development of Anti-Infective Agents, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, 4-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8575, Japan. Electronic address: akira.watanabe.b3@tohoku.ac.jp.
• ⁷ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, 5 Zaifucho, Hirosaki-shi, Aomori 036-8562, Japan. Electronic address: tasaka@hirosaki-u.ac.jp.
• ⁸ Second Department of Internal Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1-20-1 Handacho, Higashi-ku, Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka 431-3129, Japan. Electronic address: suda@hama-med.ac.jp.
• ⁹ Department of Microbiology and Infectious Disease, Toho University School of Medicine, 5-21-16 Omorinishi,Ota-ku,Tokyo 143-8540, Japan. Electronic address: kazu@med.toho-u.ac.jp.
• ¹⁰ Department of Respiratory medicine and Infectious diseases,Oita University Faculty of Medicine, 1-1 Idaigaoka Hasama-machi Yufu, 879-5593, Japan.