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SUBMITTER: Miura K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2650627 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
DNA research : an international journal for rapid publication of reports on genes and genomes 20080124 2
Chlamydophila pneumoniae, an obligate intracellular eubacterium, changes its form from a vegetative reticulate body into an infectious elementary body during the late stage of its infection cycle. Comprehension of the molecular events in the morphological change is important to understand the switching mechanism between acute and chronic infection, which is deemed to relate to the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. Herein, we have attempted to screen genes expressed in the late stage with a genome ...[more]