10 Facts About Chlamydia trachomatis

Chlamydia trachomatis, commonly known as chlamydia, is a bacterium that causes chlamydia, which can manifest in various ways, including: trachoma, lymphogranuloma venereum, nongonococcal urethritis, cervicitis, salpingitis, pelvic inflammatory disease.

Chlamydia trachomatis is a gram-negative bacterium that can replicate only within a host cell.

Chlamydia trachomatis strains are generally divided into three biovars based on the type of disease they cause.

When C trachomatis is in the lungs in the form of a respiratory infection it typically has symptoms of a runny or stuffy nose, low-grade fever, hoarseness of voice, as well as other symptoms associated with general pneumonia.

In most cases, the C trachomatis infection is then treated on an outpatient basis with azithromycin or doxycycline.

Chlamydia trachomatis species are readily identified and distinguished from other Chlamydia trachomatis species using DNA-based tests.

Chlamydia trachomatis was first described in 1907 by Stanislaus von Prowazek and Ludwig Halberstadter in scrapings from trachoma cases.

Chlamydia trachomatis agent was first cultured and isolated in the yolk sacs of eggs by Tang Fei-fan et al.

The isolation of C trachomatis coined the term isolate to describe how C trachomatis has been isolated from an in vivo setting into a "strain" in cell culture.

Chlamydia trachomatis was first described in historical records in Ebers papyrus written between 1553 and 1550 BC.