Chlamydia knock out the body’s own cancer defence

Monday, November 17, 2014 - 11:01 in Health & Medicine

By breaking down the cancer-suppressing protein p53, Chlamydia prevent programmed cell death and thereby favour the process of cancer development Infections due to the sexually transmitted bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis often […]

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