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Gene and peptide in the treatment of chlamydia trachomatis infections: beginning of an era?
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Abstract
Chlamydia trachomatis leads to the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI) worldwide, resulting in short-term and long-term health issues. The treatments for chlamydia trachomatis infection are often a hot research direction. The efficiency of antibiotics, the conventional therapy for chlamydia trachomatis infection, is decreasing gradually because of resistance, especially azithromycin. Thus, it is necessary to find new therapies to treat chlamydia trachomatis infection with higher specificity and effectiveness. Among all the trials, gene and peptide therapy stand out. As for gene therapy, IRF5 and IL-10RA are related to macrophage-chlamydia interactions. Their roles are vital in order to cure chlamydia trachomatis infection. With regard to peptide therapy, pep-1, LL-37, and melittin showed outstanding abilities in inhibiting the growth of chlamydia trachomatis. However, multiple challenges for the development of these therapies remained. Deep researches are required to address these problems in order to put these treatments into clinical use. This review summarizes the conventional treatments, and introduces gene therapy and peptide therapy for chlamydia trachomatis infection.
Keywords
chlamydia trachomatis, peptide therapy., gene therapy
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- Volume Title
- Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Biological Engineering and Medical Science (ICBioMed 2022), Part II
- ISBN (Print)
- 978-1-915371-27-0
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- 978-1-915371-28-7
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- 28 April 2023
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- Theoretical and Natural Science
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- 2753-8818
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- 2753-8826
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- 10.54254/2753-8818/4/20220504
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- 28 April 2023
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