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Chlamydiales

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Chlamydiales /Chla·myd·i·al·es/ (klah-mid´e-a″-lēz) an order of coccoid, gram-negative, parasitic microorganisms that multiply within the cytoplasm of vertebrate host cells by a unique development cycle.
Chlamydiales
an order of bacteria in the phylum Chlamydiae. There are four families, Chlamydiaceae, Parachlamydiaceae, Waddliaceae, and Simkaniaceae.


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Since elementary and reticulate bodies are similar in both Chlamydiaceae and Parachlamydiaceae (6), Chlamydiales cannot be identified in a specimen solely by electron microscopy.
For phylogenetic analyses, sequence data on complete 16S rRNA genes for each of the Chlamydiales genera were retrieved from GenBank and aligned with ClustalW (24).
4,36), Chlamydiales (3,5), Bradyrhizobiaceae (37), Rickettsiales (38), Listeria monocytogenes (39), M.
 
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