Diagram of chlamydium. Chlamydien ist eine in der alltagssprache gebraeuchliche bezeichnung fuer arten innerhalb der familie chlamydiaceaees handelt sich um sehr kleine gramnegative bakterien die sich als parasiten nur innerhalb einer wirtszelle vermehren koennen. Chlamydia pneumoniae twar organism has been found only in humans. Chlamydia trachomatis only occurs in humans. Do not touch the soft tip or.
Chlamydia is destructive to the fallopian tubes causing infertility tubal pregnancy and severe pelvic infection. Chlamydia is part of the order chlamydiales family chlamydiaceae. In the early 1990s six species of chlamydia were known. For metabolism chlamydia trachomatis has a glycolytic pathway and a linked tricarboxylic acid cycle.
Because of chlamydia s unique developmental cycle it was taxonomically classified in a separate order. The agent of a sexually transmitted disease a type of bacteria found in the cervix urethra throat or rectum that acts very much like gonorrhea in the way it is spread the symptoms it produces and its long term consequences. Journal of medical microbiology 52 193 200. The chlamydiae are a small group of nonmotile coccoid bacteria that are obligate intracellular parasites of eukaryotic cells.
Sie koennen eine vielzahl von lebewesen infizieren auch den menschen. Howie sem horner pj and horne aw. Glycogen synthesis and use of glucose derivatives plays a supporting role in chlamydial metabolism. The presence of metabloic precursors and products such as pyruvate succinate glycerol 3 phosphate and nadh dehydrogenases nadh ubiquinone oxidoreductase and cytochrome oxidase indicate that.
Discovery medicine 12 57 64. No back to chlamydia article by entering you agree that you are either an adult or have your parent or guardians permission viewing explicit images on the internet. Chlamydia can be spread during vaginal anal or oral sex and can be passed from an infected mother to her baby during childbirth. Chlamydial cells are unable to carry out energy metabolism and lack many.
However revision of the chlamydial taxonomy based on sequence analysis of 16s rrna genes has led to the proposal of two genera. Chlamydiae were originally classified taxonomically into one genus chlamydia. Collection see diagram next page 1. Patient instructions chlamydia and gonorrhea self collected vaginal swab appointment information your doctor has requested that you have chlamydia and gonorrhea testing performed.
Partially peel open the swab package. Chlamydia psittaci infects a wide variety of birds and a number of mammals whereas c trachomatis is limited largely to humans. Chlamydia trachomatis infection during pregnancy. The eye infections may also be spread by personal contact flies and contaminated towels in areas with poor sanitation.