… to cause an STI or the chronic eye disease trachoma [1], the ‘… developmental stages,
meaning that, for example, growing … trachoma transmission and pathology of ocular chlamydial …

… Chlamydia trachomatis is the leading cause of infectious blindness and a sexually transmitted
infection. All chlamydiae are … A–C can cause blinding trachoma, the leading cause of non-…

… were discovered; a poor growing mutant and a mutant which … worldwide as well as trachoma,
the leading cause of non-… Complete genome sequences of four mammalian isolates of …

… cause diseases in humans and a wide variety of different … in chlamydiae can be generated
by culturing chlamydia-… showed an inverse relationship between successful completion of the …

… a great deal, and it has been a pleasure to grow alongside them. I’… The biovars responsible
for trachoma are commonly isolated … causes a dramatic decrease to infectivity success [89]. In …

… or genotypes, cause genital (serovars DK), ocular (trachoma; … RBs then replicate inside the
growing inclusions and later … sequences with Chlamydia-related isolates whose taxonomic …

… [12], including Chlamydia infection; it has also led to growing … Following the extraction
of Chlamydia-specific sequencing … : serovars A to C, the ocular types, lead to trachoma; serovars …

… trachomatis isolates from patients with persistent or … infect the ocular mucosal epithelia
causing blinding trachoma, … others appear to be completely unable to grow in broth-culture (Pitt …

… All chlamydial species are defined by their unique intracellular … bacterial pathogen that
causes trachoma and urogenital infections… trachoma-based isolates that were phylogenetically …

… to all Chlamydophila species as Chlamydia in this chapter. … Trachoma is the leading infectious
cause for blindness and … have been used with varying success to replace NHPs . However…