RT Book, Section
A1 Vidwan, Navjyot K.
A1 Staat, Mary Allen
A2 Rudolph, Colin D.
A2 Rudolph, Abraham M.
A2 Lister, George E.
A2 First, Lewis R.
A2 Gershon, Anne A.
SR Print(0)
ID 7025553
T1 Chapter 259. Chlamydia
T2 Rudolph's Pediatrics, 22e
YR 2011
FD 2011
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-149723-7
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=7025553
RD 2024/04/23
AB The  name  chlamydiae  is  derived  from  the  Greek  word  “chlamys”  representing  the  cloak-like  mantle  worn  by  men  in  Ancient  Greece.1  Upon  initial  discovery,  chlamydiae  were  thought  to  be  intracellular  pathogens  that  cloaked  the  nucleus  of  an  infected  cell.  Scientists  have  since  discovered  that  chlamydiae  are  nonmotile,  gram-negative,  obligatory  intracellular  bacteria.  These  organisms  cannot  produce  energy  and  thus  survive  by  acting  as  a  parasite  using  the  energy  mechanics  of  its  infected  host.  The  appearance  of  the  cloak  is  now  known  to  represent  the  host’s  cytoplasmic  vesicle  with  numerous  individual  chlamydia  organisms  inside.