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An In vitro Model of <em>Chlamydia trachomatis</em> Infection in Human Dendritic Cells
2023-05-04
Abstract excerpt
Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) is an obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen known to cause trachoma, sexually transmitted infections, and reactive arthritis. The more serious sequelae of these diseases, blindness from trachoma and pelvic inflammatory disease from chlamydial STD are immunopathological responses to chronic infections. With the abundance of dendritic cells in CT infection sites and their central impor...
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- Literature Corpus work
- a51451c4-42c2-5e1a-a9dc-58b70694b94b
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202305.0242.v1
