Bacteria of the genus Chlamydia cause a wide variety of disorders in animals and people
worldwide. The immune response to chlamydiae is poorly understood and, as Daniel Levitt …

To the Editor Microbial taxonomy is an essential tool used to classify strains into different
clades, that is, taxonomic units. A natural classification system should be based on …

The Chlamydiales order is composed of obligate intracellular bacteria and includes the
Chlamydiaceae family and several family-level lineages called Chlamydia-related bacteria …

The increasing number of new cases of Chlamydia infection worldwide may be attributed to
the pathogen's ability to evade various host immune responses. Summarized here are …

Since the seminal publication in 2011 from Wang and colleagues on plasmid-based gene
transfer and the introduction of competence in Chlamydia trachomatis, numerous significant …

The obligately intracellular bacteria of the genus Chlamydia, which is only remotely related
to other eubacterial genera, cause many diseases of humans, nonhuman mammals, and …

Chlamydia was discovered in 1907 by Halberstaedter and Von Prowazek in conjunctival
scrapings from an experimentally infected orangutan. Once being thought of as symbiont in …

The several chlamydial species have been recognized for decades as bacterial pathogens
of major importance to humans and domestic animals. Chlamydia trachomatis was first …

Diseases caused by Chlamydia are based on intense and chronic inflammation elicited and
maintained by reinfection or persistent infection. The traditional view in the field is that …