Intracellular Mycoplasma genitalium infection of human vaginal and cervical epithelial cells elicits distinct patterns of inflammatory cytokine secretion and provides a possible survival niche against macrophage-mediated killing

BACKGROUND: Mycoplasma genitalium is an emerging sexually transmitted pathogen that has been associated with significant reproductive tract inflammatory syndromes in women. In addition, the strong association between severity of M. genitalium infection and Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 (HIV-1)...

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Autores principales: McGowin, Chris L, Popov, Vsevolod L, Pyles, Richard B
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2717097/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19602269
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-9-139

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