Reduced live organism recovery and lack of hydrosalpinx in mice infected with plasmid-free Chlamydia muridarum

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 983-992

  Lei, Lei ^a   Chen, Jianlin ^a,b   Hou, Shuping ^a   Ding, Yiling ^b   Yang, Zhangsheng ^a   Zeng, Hao ^c   Baseman, Joel ^a   Zhong, Guangming ^a  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA MURIDARUM; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; OVIDUCTS; PLASMIDS;

EID: 84894242009     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01543-13     Document Type: Article

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