Rectal LGV may cause a proctocolitis with anal pain, discharge, bleeding, and diarrhea. LGV is caused by Chlamydia trachomatis serotypes and can be detected by testing swabbed material from open lesions or aspirates from lymph nodes with culture, DFA, or nucleic acid detection. Treatment is ...
C. rodentium infection is thus an excellent model to study infectious colitis in vivo, while the ability to genetically manipulate C. rodentium virulence genes provides the opportunity to develop clear insights into the pathogenesis of this and related infectious microbes. This chapter outlines the ...