RT Book, Section
A1 Shah, Ankoor Y.
A1 Wiedermann, Bernhard L.
A2 Kline, Mark W.
SR Print(0)
ID 1182935619
T1 Chlamydia
T2 Rudolph's Pediatrics, 23e
YR 2018
FD 2018
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259588594
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182935619
RD 2024/10/12
AB Chlamydiae  are  nonmotile,  gram-negative,  obligate  intracellular  bacteria.  These  organisms  cannot  produce  energy  and  thus  survive  by  acting  as  a  parasite  using  the  energy  mechanics  of  their  infected  host;  they  all  have  biphasic  cycles  of  replication.  The  elementary  body  that  represents  the  “infectious”  particle  enters  the  host  cell  and  lives  within  the  host’s  cytoplasmic  inclusion  particles.  The  organism  then  begins  its  secondary  vegetative  state  known  as  the  reticulate  body  and  replicates  by  binary  fission.  Each  inclusion  body  begins  to  form  multiple  progeny  that  will  be  extruded  as  new  infectious  elementary  bodies  to  begin  the  cycle  once  again.