Chlamydia (bacterium)

Chlamydia
	Chlamydia trachomatis inclusion bodies (brown) in a McCoy cell culture.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Chlamydiota
Class:	Chlamydiia
Order:	Chlamydiales
Family:	Chlamydiaceae
Genus:	; Jones, Rake & Stearns 1945
Type species
	Chlamydia trachomatis; (Busacca 1935) Rake 1957
Species
	C. abortus; C. avium; C. buteonis; C. caviae; "Ca. C. coralli"; C. crocodili; C. felis; C. gallinacea; "C. ibidis"; "C. isopodii"; "C. major"; C. muridarum; C. pecorum; C. pneumoniae; C. poikilotherma; C. psittaci; "Ca. C. sanziniae"; "C. serpentis"; C. suis; "Ca. C. testudinis"; C. trachomatis;
Synonyms
	homotypic "Chlamydozoon" Moshkovskiy 1945 non Prowazek 1907; heterotypic Chlamydophila Everett, Bush & Andersen 1999 (type is C. psittaci, not full overlap, see § Chlamydophila) "Bedsonia" Meyer 1953 ex Levaditi, Roger & Destombes 1964; "Microbacterium" Levinthal 1930 non Orla-Jensen 1919; ; "Miyagawanella" ?;

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.^[4]

Humans mainly contract C. trachomatis, C. pneumoniae, C. abortus, and C. psittaci.^[5]

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