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| obligate intracellular gram neg, STDs, trachoma, LGV |
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| obligate intracellular gram neg, pneumonitis, other inflammatory diseases |
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| obligate intracellular gram negative, pneumonia-like, atherosclerosis |
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| Pathogenesis of Chlamydia |
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Definition
| Tissue damage due to inflammatory response to persistent infection |
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| obligate intracellular parasite, no peptidoglycan cell wall, hard to culture, nonmotile, no cytochromes, no ATP synthesis, gram neg envelope |
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| Elementary body of Chlamydia bacteria |
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Definition
| small, extracellular, metabolically inactive, doesn't divide, infectious |
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| Reticulate body of chlamydia |
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| bit larger, intracellular, metabolically active, binary fission, noninfectious |
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| C. trachomatis, serotypes A-C, preventable blindness |
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| C. trachomatis, L1-3, proctitis, papule |
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| Serotype of recent outbreaks of LGV in USA/Europe; gay men; HIV+ men |
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| UG infection, colonizes urethra (and throughout), PID, cause of Reiter's syndrome |
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| C. trachomatis, only in men, reactive arthritis due to nonviable chlamydia in joints |
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| Flu-like symptoms, from infected birds, in older people, penumonitis |
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| respiratory infection, interstitial pneumonia, arterial plaques |
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| best method to ID chlamydia |
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