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Immunology of Chlamydia pneumoniae

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Chlamydia Pneumoniae Infection

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Abstract

All chlamydia are obligate intracellular parasites and at their simplest can be regarded as highly specialized gram-negative bacteria with two developmental forms: infective elementary bodies and reproductive reticulate bodies. Both the structural components of the chlamydial cell (virulence factors) and the host cell factors — how the host resists to chlamydial infection — play a role in the immunological mechanisms associated with chlamydial infections. To date very little is known about the immunology of C. pneumoniae,but evidently most immunological mechanisms associated with other chlamydial infections are also involved in C. pneumoniae infections.

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    Luigi Allegra M.D. (Head of the Institute of Respiratory Diseases) (Head of the Institute of Respiratory Diseases)

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    Francesco Blasi M.D., PH.D. (Assistant Professor) (Assistant Professor)

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Leinonen, M., Laurila, A., Laitinen, K., Surcel, H.M. (1995). Immunology of Chlamydia pneumoniae . In: Allegra, L., Blasi, F. (eds) Chlamydia Pneumoniae Infection. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2201-0_7

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