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| Chlamydia trachomatis inclusion bodies (brown) in a McCoy cell culture. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Chlamydiota |
| Class: | Chlamydiia |
| Order: | Chlamydiales |
| Family: | Chlamydiaceae |
| Genus: | Chlamydia Jones, Rake & Stearns 1945 |
| Type species | |
| Chlamydia trachomatis (Busacca 1935) Rake 1957
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Chlamydia is a genus of pathogenic Gram-negative bacteria that are obligate intracellular parasites. Chlamydia infections are the most common bacterial sexually transmitted diseases in humans and are the leading cause of infectious blindness worldwide.[1]
Species include Chlamydia trachomatis (a human pathogen), Ch. suis (affects only swine), and Ch. muridarum (affects only mice and hamsters).[2] Humans mainly contract Ch. trachomatis, Ch. pneumoniae, Ch. abortus, and Ch. psittaci.[3]
- ^ Drew, W. Lawrence (2004). "Chlamydia". In Ryan, Kenneth; Ray, C. George (eds.). Sherris Medical Microbiology (PDF) (4th ed.). McGraw Hill. pp. 463–470. ISBN 978-0-8385-8529-0.
- ^ Ward M. "Taxonomy diagram". Chlamydiae.com. Archived from the original on 2010-09-18. Retrieved 2008-10-28.
- ^ Joseph, SJ; et al. (2015), "Chlamydiaceae genomics reveals interspecies admixture and the recent evolution of Chlamydia abortus infecting lower mammalian species and humans", Genome Biol Evol, 7 (11): 3070–3084, doi:10.1093/gbe/evv201, PMC 4994753, PMID 26507799.