Chlamydia (bacterium)
Chlamydia trachomatis | ||||||||||
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C. trachomatis inclusion bodies (brown) in a McCoy cell culture.
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Chlamydia muridarum
Chlamydophila pneumoniae |
Chlamydia is a genus of obligate intracellular bacteria in the family Chlamydiaceae, order Chlamydiales, class and phylum Chlamydiae. Several species of Chlamydia are pathogenic to humans causing pneumonia, eye infections, and sexually transmitted disease, which is called Chlamydia.