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Induction of protective immunity against a Chlamydia trachomatis genital infection in three genetically distinct strains of mice.
Immunology - 1 Nov 2003
Pal Sukumar, Peterson Ellena M, de la Maza Luis M
Abstract excerpt
To establish the feasibility of inducing a protective immune response against a chlamydial genital infection in animals with different genetic backgrounds, groups of C3H/HeN (H-2k), BALB/c (H-2d) and C57BL/6 (H-2b) mice, were immunized intranasally with elementary bodies (EB) of the Chlamydia trachomatis mouse pneumonitis biovar. Following the intranasal immunization strong Chlamydia-specific humoral and...
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