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SUBMITTER: Belland RJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC166254 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Belland Robert J RJ Zhong Guangming G Crane Deborah D DD Hogan Daniel D Sturdevant Daniel D Sharma Jyotika J Beatty Wandy L WL Caldwell Harlan D HD
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20030618 14
Chlamydia trachomatis is one of the most common bacterial pathogens and is the etiological agent of debilitating sexually transmitted and ocular diseases in humans. The organism is an obligate intracellular prokaryote characterized by a highly specialized biphasic developmental cycle. We have performed genomic transcriptional analysis of the chlamydial developmental cycle. This approach has led to the identification of a small subset of genes that control the primary (immediate-early genes) and ...[more]