Chlamydia (bacterium)

Chlamydia
	Chlamydia trachomatis inclusion bodies (brown) in a McCoy cell culture.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Chlamydiae
Class:	Chlamydiae
Order:	Chlamydiales
Family:	Chlamydiaceae
Genus:	Chlamydia
Species
	Chlamydia abortus Sachse et al. 2015; Chlamydia avium Sachse et al. 2015; Chlamydia caviae ? (not validated); Chlamydia felis (Everett et al. 1999) Sachse et al. 2015; Chlamydia gallinacea Sachse et al. 2015; Chlamydia ibidis Vorimore et al. 2013 (not validated); Chlamydia muridarum Everett et al. 1999; Chlamydia pecorum Fukushi & Hirai 1992; Chlamydia pneumoniae Grayston et al. 1989; Chlamydia psittaci (Lillie 1930) Page 1968; Chlamydia suis Everett et al. 1999; Chlamydia trachomatis (Busacca 1935) Rake 1957 emend. Everett et al. 1999

Chlamydia is a genus of bacteria that are obligate intracellular parasites. Chlamydia infections are the most common bacterial sexually transmitted infections in humans and are the leading cause of infectious blindness worldwide.

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↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 Parte, A.C. "Chlamydia". www.bacterio.net.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Vorimore, Fabien; Hsia, Ru-ching; Huot-Creasy, Heather; Bastian, Suzanne; Deruyter, Lucie; Passet, Anne; Sachse, Konrad; Bavoil, Patrik; Myers, Garry; Laroucau, Karine (20 September 2013). "Isolation of a New Chlamydia species from the Feral Sacred Ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus)- Chlamydia ibidis". PLOS ONE. 8 (9). e74823. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...874823V. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0074823. PMC 3779242. PMID 24073223.

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[Chlamydia-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 Parte, A.C. "Chlamydia". www.bacterio.net.

[ibis-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Vorimore, Fabien; Hsia, Ru-ching; Huot-Creasy, Heather; Bastian, Suzanne; Deruyter, Lucie; Passet, Anne; Sachse, Konrad; Bavoil, Patrik; Myers, Garry; Laroucau, Karine (20 September 2013). "Isolation of a New Chlamydia species from the Feral Sacred Ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus)- Chlamydia ibidis". PLOS ONE. 8 (9). e74823. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...874823V. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0074823. PMC 3779242. PMID 24073223.

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Chlamydia

Chlamydia trachomatis inclusion bodies (brown) in a McCoy cell culture.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Chlamydiae
Class:	Chlamydiae
Order:	Chlamydiales
Family:	Chlamydiaceae
Genus:	Chlamydia
Species
Chlamydia abortus Sachse et al. 2015^[1] Chlamydia avium Sachse et al. 2015^[1] Chlamydia caviae ? (not validated)^[2] Chlamydia felis (Everett et al. 1999) Sachse et al. 2015^[1] Chlamydia gallinacea Sachse et al. 2015^[1] Chlamydia ibidis Vorimore et al. 2013 (not validated)^[2] Chlamydia muridarum Everett et al. 1999 Chlamydia pecorum Fukushi & Hirai 1992 Chlamydia pneumoniae Grayston et al. 1989^[1] Chlamydia psittaci (Lillie 1930) Page 1968^[1] Chlamydia suis Everett et al. 1999 Chlamydia trachomatis (Busacca 1935) Rake 1957 emend. Everett et al. 1999