Article
M2 Polarization of Human Macrophages Favors Survival of the Intracellular Pathogen Chlamydia pneumoniae.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Buchacher Tanja, Ohradanova-Repic Anna, Stockinger Hannes, Fischer Michael B, Weber Viktoria
Abstract excerpt
Intracellular pathogens have developed various strategies to escape immunity to enable their survival in host cells, and many bacterial pathogens preferentially reside inside macrophages, using diverse mechanisms to penetrate their defenses and to exploit their high degree of metabolic diversity and plasticity. Here, we characterized the interactions of the intracellular pathogen Chlamydia pneumoniae with...
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