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Chlamydia muridarum Genital and Gastrointestinal Infection Tropism Is Mediated by Distinct Chromosomal Factors.
Infection and immunity - 1 Jul 2018
Morrison Sandra G, Giebel Amanda M, Toh Evelyn C, Spencer Horace J, Nelson David E, Morrison Richard P
Abstract excerpt
Some members of the genus Chlamydia, including the human pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis, infect multiple tissues, including the genital and gastrointestinal (GI) tracts. However, it is unknown if bacterial targeting to these sites is mediated by multifunctional or distinct chlamydial factors. We previously showed that disruption of individual large clostridial toxin homologs encoded within the Chlamydia muridarum...
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