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Interactions of the Skin Pathogen Haemophilus ducreyi With the Human Host.
Frontiers in immunology - 1 Jan 2020
Brothwell Julie A, Griesenauer Brad, Chen Li, Spinola Stanley M
Abstract excerpt
The obligate human pathogen Haemophilus ducreyi causes both cutaneous ulcers in children and sexually transmitted genital ulcers (chancroid) in adults. Pathogenesis is dependent on avoiding phagocytosis and exploiting the suppurative granuloma-like niche, which contains a myriad of innate immune cells and memory T cells. Despite this immune infiltrate, long-lived immune protection does not develop against...
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