Rectal administration of a chlamydial subunit vaccine protects against genital infection and upper reproductive tract pathology in mice

• Roshan Pais,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Immunology, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Yusuf Omosun,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Immunology, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Qing He,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Immunology, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Uriel Blas-Machado,

  Affiliation Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Carolyn Black,

  Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Joseph U. Igietseme,

  Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Kohtaro Fujihashi,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Immunobiology Vaccine Center, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham Alabama, United States of America

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• Francis O. Eko

  * E-mail: feko@msm.edu

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Immunology, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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