Chlamydia (C.) psittaci is an economically relevant pathogen in poultry and pet birds, where
it causes psittacosis/ornithosis, and also a human pathogen causing atypical pneumonia …

In the first part of this article the general characteristics of Chlamydia psittaci namely the
history, taxonomy, morphology, reproductive cycle, metabolism and genetics are reviewed …

CD4+ T cells have been found to play a critical role in immune protection against Chlamydia
trachomatis infection. Since both humoral and cell-mediated antichlamydial immunity have …

Chlamydiae are obligate intracellular prokaryotes with a hexalaminar cell wall that, in
contrast to other gram-negative bacteria, contains no peptidoglycan. As a major antigenic …

The protective efficacy of an alum-adsorbed, parenterally administered synthetic
oligopeptide immunogen corresponding to antigenically common T-helper and neutralizing …

The significance of delivery systems in modern vaccine design strategies is underscored by
the fact that a promising vaccine formulation may fail in vivo due to an inappropriate delivery …

The major outer membrane protein (MOMP) of Chlamydia species shares several
biochemical properties with classical porin proteins. Secondary structure analysis by circular …

The human serological response was analyzed by using sera from patients who were
serologically positive but isolation negative for Chlamydia pneumoniae and from patients …

Several isolates of Chlamydia pneumoniae were compared with each other and to
Chlamydia trachomatis and Chlamydia psittaci by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide …

Chlamydia trachomatis is the trachoma agent and causes most bacterial sexually
transmitted infections worldwide. Its major outer membrane protein (MOMP) is a well-known …