Chlamydiaceae (redirected from Chlamydiaceae infections)

Chlamydiaceae /Chla·myd·i·a·ceae/ (klah-mid″e-a´se-e) a family of bacteria (order Chlamydiales) consisting of small coccoid microorganisms that have a unique, obligately intracellular developmental cycle and are incapable of synthesizing ATP. They induce their own phagocytosis by host cells, in which they then form intracytoplasmic colonies. They are parasites of birds and mammals (including humans). The family contains a single genus, Chlamydia.

---

Chlamydiaceae

a family of obligately intracellular gram-negative bacterial pathogens that parasitize the host cell for ATP. Outside the host cell they exist as elementary bodies, which are 200-300 nm in diameter, have a rigid cell wall and adhere to host cells and are phagocytosed. Inside the host cell phagosome, they form larger reticulate bodies, which replicate, then form elementary bodies, which are released by cell lysis. Cultivable in cell cultures and the yolk sacs of chick embryos. Contains two genera, Chlamydia and Chlamydophila.