Antibody signature of spontaneous clearance of Chlamydia trachomatis ocular infection and partial resistance against re-challenge in a nonhuman primate trachoma model.

• Egile Nagusiak: Laszlo Kari (Egilea), Lauren E Bakios (Egilea), Morgan M Goheen (Egilea), Leah N Bess (Egilea), Heather S Watkins (Egilea), Timothy R Southern (Egilea), Lihua Song (Egilea), William M Whitmire (Egilea), Norma Olivares-Zavaleta (Egilea), Harlan D Caldwell (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Gaiak: article
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Chlamydia trachomatis is the etiological agent of trachoma the world's leading cause of infectious blindness. Here, we investigate whether protracted clearance of a primary infection in nonhuman primates is attributable to antigenic variation or related to the maturation of the anti-chlamydial...