… 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…

… , and C preferentially infect ocular tissues and cause trachoma, a … , but we were unable to
cultivate these strains in vitro following freeze-… immunity, we obtained two previously isolated C. …

… pathotype cause chronic ocular infections called trachoma … subsided, the RBs will continue
to grow and divide until 18-40 … the product was isolated following extraction from the agarose …

… Chlamydia trachomatis, the etiologic agent of both of these conditions, was isolated in 1957,
and vaccine studies against trachoma … has been no successful attempt to grow the bacteria …

… trachomatis), and its common name follows a pattern … reaction for syphilis and culturing and
microscopy for gonorrhea. … that “in this investigation, Chlamydia were isolated from 20% of …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… bodies, and reticulate bodies which grow inside a host cell vacuole. … country in the world
where trachoma is yet to be eliminated. … Of the isolates represented in the phylogenetic tree, …

… and is the leading cause of infectious blindness (trachoma) in … isolated from contact lens
solutions, the most frequent cause … Finally, there is growing evidence that human papillomavirus …

… faeces was the most successful bait compared with soil (… we isolate chemicals in the odour
of human faeces that cause a … Chlamydia trachomatis, the bacterium that causes trachoma, …