Chlamydia trachomatis genital tract infection of antibody-deficient gene knockout mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1993-1999

  Su, Hua ^a   Feilzer, Karen ^a   Caldwell, Harlan D ^a   Morrison, Richard P ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY DEPENDENT LYMPHOCYTOTOXICITY; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; HUMORAL IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION CONTROL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BACTERIAL VACCINES; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT;

EID: 0031011321     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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