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ArticleThe Journal of infectious diseases2011

Murine Chlamydia trachomatis genital infection is unaltered by depletion of CD4+ T cells and diminished adaptive immunity.

Sandra G Morrison, Christina M Farris, Gail L Sturdevant, William M Whitmire, Richard P Morrison

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Article in The Journal of infectious diseases, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Sandra G MorrisonDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205-7194, USA.
Christina M Farris
Gail L Sturdevant
William M Whitmire
Richard P Morrison

Funding

IMMUNITY TO CHLAMYDIAL GENITAL INFECTIONR01AI038991 · NIAID · UNIV OF ARKANSAS FOR MED SCIS · PI MORRISON, RICHARD P. · 1996 to 2009
$2.8M
Immunity to Chlamydial Genital InfectionR56AI038991 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI MORRISON, RICHARD P. · 2005 to 2005
$363k
NIAID NIH HHS AI-038991NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI038991
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chlamydia muridarum and Chlamydia trachomatis mouse models of genital infection have been used to study chlamydial immunity and vaccine development. To assess the protective role of CD4(+) T cells in resolving C. trachomatis and C. muridarum genital tract infections, we used the female mouse model and evaluated infection in the presence and absence of CD4(+) T cells. In contrast to C. muridarum infection, C. trachomatis infection was unaltered in the absence of CD4(+) T cells. Mice infected with C. trachomatis developed protective immunity to re-challenge, but unlike C. muridarum infection, optimum resistance required multiple infectious challenges, despite the generation of adaptive serum and local chlamydial specific immune responses. Thus, understanding the chlamydial pathogenic and host immunologic factors that result in a diminished protective role for CD4(+) T cells in C. trachomatis murine infection might lead to new insights important to human immunity and vaccine development.

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Chlamydia trachomatisLymphocyte DepletionAdaptive ImmunityAnimalsCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesChlamydia InfectionsFemaleHumansMiceMice, Inbred C3HTime Factors

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PMID21321103
PMCPMC3068022

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