In vitro response of host cell to Chlamydia pneumoniae infection, an ultra structure investigation
Background and objectives: Chlamydiae are obligate intracellular bacterial pathogens that share a unique developmental cycle. The cycle alternates between infectious extracellular elementary bodies (EBs) and metabolically active reticulate bodies (RBs), which multiply within intracellular vacuoles...
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Tehran University of Medical Sciences
2009-03-01
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| Series: | Iranian Journal of Microbiology |
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| Online Access: | https://ijm.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijm/article/view/5 |