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Genetic differences in the Chlamydia trachomatis tryptophan synthase alpha-subunit can explain variations in serovar pathogenesis.
Microbes and infection - 1 May 2000
Shaw A C, Christiansen G, Roepstorff P, Birkelund S
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The human pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis is an obligate intracellular bacterium, characterized by a developmental cycle that alternates between the infectious, extracellular elementary bodies and intracellular, metabolically active reticulate bodies. The cellular immune effector interferon gamma (IFN-gamma) inhibits chlamydial multiplication in human epithelial cells by induction of the tryptophan degrading...
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