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Impact of Active Metabolism on Chlamydia trachomatis Elementary Body Transcript Profile and Infectivity
4 May 2018
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ABSTRACT Bacteria of the genus Chlamydia include the significant human pathogens Chlamydia trachomatis and C. pneumoniae . All chlamydiae are obligate intracellular parasites that depend on infection of a host cell and transition through a biphasic developmental cycle. Following host cell invasion by the infectious elementary body (EB), the pathogen transitions to the replicative but noninfectious reticulate body...
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