CD4+ T cells are necessary and sufficient to confer protection against chlamydia trachomatis infection in the murine upper genital tract

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 189, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2441-2449

  Gondek, David C ^a   Olive, Andrew J ^a   Stary, Georg ^a   Starnbach, Michael N ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; FEMALE UPPER GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INOCULATION; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REINFECTION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TRANSCERVICAL INOCULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CERVIX UTERI; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; MICE; MICE, 129 STRAIN; MICE, CONGENIC; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

EID: 84865438129     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1103032     Document Type: Article

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