Plasmid-Cured Chlamydia caviae Activates TLR2-Dependent Signaling and Retains Virulence in the Guinea Pig Model of Genital Tract Infection

• Lauren C. Frazer,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Toni Darville,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Kumar Chandra-Kuntal,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Charles W. Andrews Jr,

  Affiliation Milstead Pathology Group, Conyers, Georgia, United States of America

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• Matthew Zurenski,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Margaret Mintus,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Yasser M. AbdelRahman,

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

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• Robert J. Belland,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Robin R. Ingalls,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Catherine M. O'Connell

  * E-mail: oconnellcm@upmc.edu

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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