Importance of reinfection in the pathogenesis of trachoma

Reviews of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 1985, Pages 717-725

  Grayston, J Thomas ^a,b   Wang, San Pin ^a,b   Yeh, Lung Jui ^a,b   Kuo, Cho Chou ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Provincial Health Department ^*  (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL VACCINE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONJUNCTIVITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; RECURRENT DISEASE; TAIWAN; TRACHOMA;

ANIMAL; BACTERIAL VACCINES; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONJUNCTIVITIS, INCLUSION; HUMAN; RECURRENCE; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TAIWAN; TRACHOMA;

EID: 0022158306     PISSN: 01620886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/7.6.717     Document Type: Article

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