[HTML][HTML] Emerging bacterial pathogens: the past and beyond

M Vouga, G Greub - Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2016 - Elsevier
Since the 1950s, medical communities have been facing with emerging and reemerging
infectious diseases, and emerging pathogens are now considered to be a major …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances and public health implications for environmental exposure to Chlamydia abortus: from enzootic to zoonotic disease

L Turin, S Surini, N Wheelhouse, MS Rocchi - Veterinary research, 2022 - Springer
Environmental transmission of Chlamydia abortus as a result of enzootic disease or disease
outbreaks and the threats posed by this pathogen has been previously reported, however a …

Twenty years of research into Chlamydia-like organisms: a revolution in our understanding of the biology and pathogenicity of members of the phylum Chlamydiae

A Taylor-Brown, L Vaughan, G Greub… - FEMS Pathogens and …, 2015 - zora.uzh.ch
Chlamydiae are obligate intracellular bacteria that share a unique but remarkably conserved
biphasic developmental cycle that relies on a eukaryotic host cell for survival. Although the …

[HTML][HTML] An altered fecal microbial profiling in rosacea patients compared to matched controls

YJ Chen, WH Lee, HJ Ho, CH Tseng, CY Wu - Journal of the Formosan …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background/Purpose Rosacea has been linked to inflammatory bowel disease and small
bowel bacterial overgrowth. We aimed to investigate the fecal microbial profiling and the …

The high prevalence and diversity of Chlamydiales DNA within Ixodes ricinus ticks suggest a role for ticks as reservoirs and vectors of Chlamydia-related bacteria

L Pilloux, S Aeby, R Gaümann, C Burri… - Applied and …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
The Chlamydiales order is composed of nine families of strictly intracellular bacteria. Among
them, Chlamydia trachomatis, C. pneumoniae, and C. psittaci are established human …

[HTML][HTML] New and emerging chlamydial infections of creatures great and small

A Taylor-Brown, A Polkinghorne - New Microbes and New Infections, 2017 - Elsevier
Until recently, our knowledge of the host range and diversity of members of the
Chlamydiaceae, obligate intracellular bacterial pathogens of humans and animals, was …

Importance of amoebae as a tool to isolate amoeba‐resisting microorganisms and for their ecology and evolution: the Chlamydia paradigm

C Kebbi‐Beghdadi, G Greub - Environmental microbiology …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Free‐living amoebae are distributed worldwide and are frequently in contact with humans
and animals. As cysts, they can survive in very harsh conditions and resist biocides and …

[HTML][HTML] The bacterial microbiome of field-collected Dermacentor marginatus and Dermacentor reticulatus from Slovakia

YK Zhang, ZJ Yu, D Wang, V Bronislava, P Branislav… - Parasites & vectors, 2019 - Springer
Background The important roles of microbial flora in tick biology and ecology have received
much attention. Dermacentor marginatus and Dermacentor reticulatus are known vectors of …

Sequencing the Obligate Intracellular Rhabdochlamydia helvetica within Its Tick Host Ixodes ricinus to Investigate Their Symbiotic Relationship

T Pillonel, C Bertelli, S Aeby, M de Barsy… - Genome biology and …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The Rhabdochlamydiaceae family is one of the most widely distributed within the phylum
Chlamydiae, but most of its members remain uncultivable. Rhabdochlamydia 16S rRNA was …

[HTML][HTML] Chlamydia-Like Organisms (CLOs) in Finnish Ixodes ricinus Ticks and Human Skin

K Hokynar, JJ Sormunen, EJ Vesterinen, EK Partio… - Microorganisms, 2016 - mdpi.com
Ticks carry several human pathogenic microbes including Borreliae and Flavivirus causing
tick-born encephalitis. Ticks can also carry DNA of Chlamydia-like organisms (CLOs). The …