C hlamydia invades a host cell, forms a membrane-bound vacuole, or inclusion, and then modifies the protein composition of the structure’s membrane. If immune cells detect Chlamydia before it forms ...

Illustration depicting a chlamydia-infected cell. Chlamydia trachomatis bacteria (represented by small dark spherical shapes colorized blue) undergo development within a membrane-enclosed ...

Chlamydia is the most common sexually transmitted ... Yet, until now, scientists haven't been able to test this theory in ...

A recent study published in Cell examines how the CVM impacts the incidence and recurrence of Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) infections and their associated complications. CT is the most common ...

It's possible, but rare, to pass chlamydia to the throat through an act of oral sex with an infected man. Symptoms usually show up one to three weeks after infection, if they appear at all.

Women who develop bacterial vaginosis (BV) often later acquire chlamydia, a common and potentially ... was published online today in the journal Cell. BV affects at least 30% of women at any ...

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Cases of bacterial sexually transmitted infections are on the rise worldwide. An international team led by the University of Zurich has now developed a new method for genome sequencing and discovered ...

The study, one of the largest and most comprehensive of its kind, was published online today in the journal Cell. "It was already known that BV raises a woman's risk for acquiring chlamydia ...