S07.3 Facilitating sexual health: why do 12–16 year olds attend a rural sexual health clinic?

Abstract

infection in 'humanized' mouse models provides an unprecedented ability to study this exquisitely host-adapted pathogen in vivo, facilitating efforts to define the contribution of virulence factors to infection and immunopathogenesis, and providing a tractable model in which to test vaccine candidates. Finally, the re-establishment of human male volunteer urethral challenge models provides a clear path for the definitive validation of high priority vaccine formulations. The material nature of these advances has energized the community to coordinate efforts in the common goal of developing a vaccine to defeat this relentless pathogen.