Chlamydia trachomatis can exchange genes between infection sites.For the first time, genome sequencing has been carried out on Chlamydia trachomatis (C.
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Using novel method, study resolves 50-year ‘chlamydial anomaly’
Researchers studying Chlamydia trachomatis bacteria, which cause the sexually transmitted infection chlamydia as well as infectious blindness, have confirmed that the bacteria contain – and, in fact, cannot function without – the common molecule peptid…
New understanding of chlamydial disease
Investigators at the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have developed a new technique that can track the activity of a disease-causing microbe and the host cell response to that pathogen simultaneously.