The chlamydial developmental cycle

YM AbdelRahman, RJ Belland - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Intracellular parasitism by bacterial pathogens is a complex, multi-factorial process that has
been exploited successfully by a wide variety of organisms. Members of the Order …

Chlamydial persistence: beyond the biphasic paradigm

RJ Hogan, SA Mathews, S Mukhopadhyay… - Infection and …, 2004 - Am Soc Microbiol
The chlamydiae are an evolutionarily distinct group of eubacteria sharing an obligate
intracellular lifestyle and a unique developmental cycle that has been well characterized …

[PDF][PDF] Chlamydia psittaci: update on an underestimated zoonotic agent

MR Knittler, K Sachse - Pathogens and disease, 2015 - researchgate.net
Chlamydia (C.) psittaci is an economically relevant pathogen in poultry and pet birds, where
it causes psittacosis/ornithosis, and also a human pathogen causing atypical pneumonia …

Persistent chlamydiae: from cell culture to a paradigm for chlamydial pathogenesis

WL Beatty, RP Morrison, GI Byrne - Microbiological reviews, 1994 - Am Soc Microbiol
Chlamydiae are medically important bacteria responsible for a wide range of human
infections and diseases. Repeated episodes of infection promote chronic inflammation …

Chlamydia trachomatis Persistence In Vitro: An Overview

PB Wyrick - The Journal of infectious diseases, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Chlamydiae growing in target mucosal human epithelial cells in vitro can transition from their
normal developmental cycle progression, alternating between infectious but metabolically …

Chlamydia pneumoniae and atherosclerosis

RJ Belland, SP Ouellette, J Gieffers… - Cellular …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Exposure to Chlamydia pneumoniae is extremely common, and respiratory infections occur
repeatedly among most people. Strong associations exist between C. pneumoniae infection …

The Role of the Immune Response in Chlamydia trachomatis Infection of the Male Genital Tract: A Double-Edged Sword

KA Redgrove, EA McLaughlin - Frontiers in immunology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) is the most prevalent bacterial sexually transmitted infection in
the world, with more than 100 million cases reported annually. While there have been …

Molecular basis defining human Chlamydia trachomatis tissue tropism: a possible role for tryptophan synthase

C Fehlner-Gardiner, C Roshick, JH Carlson… - Journal of Biological …, 2002 - ASBMB
Here we report the cloning and sequencing of a region of the chlamydiae chromosome
termed the" plasticity zone" from all the human serovars of C. trachomatis containing the …

Evidence for Long-Term Cervical Persistence of Chlamydia trachomatis by omp1 Genotyping

D Dean, RJ Suchland, WE Stamm - The Journal of infectious …, 2000 - academic.oup.com
Recurrent Chlamydia trachomatis infections are common among sexually active women.
Although recurrences with a new chlamydial serovar indicate reinfection, same-serovar …

Repeated and persistent infection with Chlamydia and the development of chronic inflammation and disease

WL Beatty, GI Byrne, RP Morrison - Trends in Microbiology, 1994 - cell.com
T he chlamydiae are among the most common human pathogens and are an extremely
important public health problem worldwide, both medically and economically (Table 1) …