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Bacteria > Gram-Negative Bacteria > Chlamydiales

Preferred term

Chlamydiales  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Criblamydiaceae
  • Parachlamydiaceae
  • Rhabdochlamydia
  • Simkaniaceae
  • Waddliaceae

Scope note

  • An order of obligately intracellular, gram-negative bacteria that have the chlamydia-like developmental cycle of replication. This is a two-stage cycle that includes a metabolically inactive infectious form, and a vegetative form that replicates by binary fission. Members of Chlamydiales are disseminated by aerosol or by contact. There are at least six recognized families: CHLAMYDIACEAE, Criblamydiaceae, Parachlamydiaceae, Rhabdochlamydia, Simkaniaceae, and Waddliaceae.

History note

  • 1976

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D002695

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