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What is the function of elementary bodies (EBs) in the life cycle of Chlamydiae?
What is the function of elementary bodies (EBs) in the life cycle of Chlamydiae?
- They undergo reorganization to form a reticulate body
- They are metabolically active and infectious
- They stimulate phagosome-lysozyme fusion
- They are metabolically inactive but infectious (correct)
What happens to elementary bodies (EBs) once they are in the host?
What happens to elementary bodies (EBs) once they are in the host?
- They stimulate phagocytosis but prevent phagosome-lysozyme fusion (correct)
- They stimulate phagocytosis and phagosome-lysozyme fusion
- They remain metabolically inactive
- They become metabolically active
What transformation do elementary bodies (EBs) undergo in the host?
What transformation do elementary bodies (EBs) undergo in the host?
- They stimulate phagosome-lysozyme fusion
- They transform into metabolically active structures
- They undergo reorganization to form a reticulate body (correct)
- They remain as spore-like structures
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