Elimination of Chlamydia muridarum from the female reproductive tract is IL-12p40 dependent, but independent of Th1 and Th2 cells.

"raw rnaseq data is available in ncbi's gene expression omnibus and are accessible through geo series accession number gse193909 ( https://www ncbi nlm nih gov/geo/query/acc cgi?; raw rnaseq data is available in ncbi's gene expression omnibus and are accessible through geo series accession number gse193909 ( https://www ncbi nlm nih gov/geo/query/acc cgi?; raw data can be accessed via the ncbi's gene expression omnibus [ ] through geo series accession number gse193909."

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"This work was funded by NIH-National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (https://www.niaid.nih.gov/) grants to SJM (RO1 AI103422 and T32 AI060555). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."