Chlamydia pneumoniae Infection and Disease by Herman Friedman (ed.), Yoshimasa Yamamoto (ed.), Mauro

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By Herman Friedman (ed.), Yoshimasa Yamamoto (ed.), Mauro Bendinelli (ed.)

Chlamydia pneumoniae is a micro organism that's most ordinarily recognized for inflicting colds and pneumonia. notwithstanding, researchers have lately came upon a hyperlink among C. pneumoniae and atherosclerosis, a clogging of the arteries that motives center assault and stroke. moreover, ongoing study is exhibiting that yes lines may perhaps play a task in bronchial asthma, a number of sclerosis, Alzheimer's sickness, and arthritis.

This quantity, a part of the Infectious brokers and Pathogenesis sequence, is a whole portrait of C. pneumoniae and what's presently identified approximately it.

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2. The inner membrane is seen as a lipid bilayer. In the FIGURE 1. Electron microscopy of C. pneumoniae COMC stained with 1 % ammonium molybdate. The diameter of COMC is 300 nm. 32 G. CHRISTIANSEN et al. FIGURE 2. Schematic drawing of the hypothetical structure of the C. pneumoniae membrane modified from refs. 16 and 26. periplasmic space Omp2 is seen connected to Omp3. The structure of COMC is complex, with LPS, Ppm, spike-like structures, and MOMP trimers being surface exposed. 5. CHLAMYDIA GENOMES Sequencing of Chlamydia genomes has provided new means to analyze the molecular and structural biology of Chlamydia.

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