Development of a transformation system for chlamydia trachomatis: restoration of glycogen biosynthesis by acquisition of a plasmid shuttle vector
Chlamydia trachomatis remains one of the few major human pathogens for which there is no transformation system. C. trachomatis has a unique obligate intracellular developmental cycle. The extracellular infectious elementary body (EB) is an infectious, electron-dense structure that, following host ce...
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2011-09-22.
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