Immunity and vaccines against sexually transmitted Chlamydia trachomatis infection
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Immunity and vaccines against sexually transmitted Chlamydia trachomatis infection.
PURPOSE OF REVIEW The aim is to review recent findings on immunity and vaccine development to Chlamydia trachomatis. RECENT FINDINGS There is increasing knowledge on the interactions between C. trachomatis and infected host cells. During genital infection the organism avoids generating protective immunity but immune responses to a number of chlamydial proteins have been associated with reprod...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0951-7375
DOI: 10.1097/qco.0b013e3283421081