Chlamydia (genus)

Chlamydia
	Chlamydia trachomatis inclusion bodies (brown) in a McCoy cell culture.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Chlamydiota
Class:	Chlamydiia
Order:	Chlamydiales
Family:	Chlamydiaceae
Genus:	Chlamydia; Jones, Rake & Stearns 1945
Type species
	Chlamydia trachomatis; (Busacca 1935) Rake 1957
Species
	C. buteonis; C. crocodili; C. muridarum; C. suis; "Ca. C. testudinis"; C. trachomatis;
Synonyms
	"Bedsonia" Meyer 1953; "Chlamydozoon" Moshkovskiy 1945; "Miyagawanella" Brumpt 1938;

Chlamydia is a genus of pathogenic Gram-negative bacteria that are obligate intracellular parasites. Chlamydia infections are the most common bacterial sexually transmitted diseases in humans and are the leading cause of infectious blindness worldwide.

Species include Chlamydia trachomatis (a human pathogen), Ch. suis (affects only swine), and Ch. muridarum (affects only mice and hamsters). Humans mainly contract Ch. trachomatis, Ch. pneumoniae, Ch. abortus, and Ch. psittaci.

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