New understanding of chlamydial disease, host interactions
Thursday, December 5, 2013 - 14:00
in Health & Medicine
Investigators have developed a new technique that can track the activity of a disease-causing microbe and the host cell response to that pathogen simultaneously. Using the new method to examine Chlamydia trachomatis infection, the study team observed how the response of the infected cell contributes to one of the hallmark outcomes of chlamydial disease --tissue scarring.