Together with scientists from Paris and Munich, a team of researchers working under Prof. Dr. Johannes Hegemann and Dr. Katja Moelleken has published these findings in the journal Proceedings of the ...

DURHAM, N.C. – Chlamydia, the leading cause of sexually transmitted bacterial infections, evades detection and elimination inside human cells by use of a cloaking device. But Duke University ...

When Chlamydia attacks the human body the immune system starts its defense mechanisms. But the bacteria find a way to defend themselves. Scientists have deciphered new details of their strategy now.

Chlamydia, the leading cause of sexually transmitted bacterial infections, evades detection and elimination inside human cells by use of a cloaking device. But Duke University researchers have grasped ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- An Indiana University biologist has been awarded over $2.3 million from the National Institutes of Health to genetically modify variants of the human pathogen chlamydia in hopes ...

The bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis is best known for infecting genitals, causing the sexually transmitted infection (STI) known as chlamydia. But a new study has found that these sneaky cells can ...

Remarkably little is known about how intracellular pathogens exit the host cell in order to infect new hosts. Pathogenic chlamydiae egress by first rupturing their replicative niche (the inclusion) ...

Some of Sydney’s koalas are facing an uncompromising dilemma. The koalas living in one corner of Australia’s largest city are perilously inbred, researchers report February 26 in Conservation Genetics ...

For more than a decade, veterinary researchers in Queensland, Australia, have been vaccinating wild koalas against chlamydia, ...

Chlamydia treatment may fail twice due to bacterial resistance to antibiotics, such as doxycycline, issues with the absorption of medication into the body, or not following the full course of ...

Chlamydia is a sexually transmitted infection that’s most common in the genital area. That said, it’s possible to contract a chlamydial eye infection, often referred to as inclusion or chlamydial ...