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Immunology of Chlamydia pneumoniae

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Abstract

Chlamydiae are obligate intracellular parasites and at their simplest they can be regarded as highly specialised Gram-negative bacteria. Both the structural components of the chlamydial cell (virulence factors) and the host cell factors — i. e. how the host resists chlamydial infection — play a role in the immunological mechanisms associated with chlamydial infections. At the moment, not much is known about the immunology of Chlamydia pneumoniae infection, but evidently most immunological mechanisms associated with other chlamydial infections are also involved in C. pneumoniae infections.

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Leinonen, M. (1999). Immunology of Chlamydia pneumoniae . In: Allegra, L., Blasi, F. (eds) Chlamydia pneumoniae. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2280-5_11

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