T cell responses to Chlamydia trachomatis

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 87-91

  Loomis, Wendy P ^a   Starnbach, Michael N ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CYTOKINE RELEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS;

EID: 0036166022     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5274(02)00291-6     Document Type: Review

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