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Chlamydiota vs. Bdellovibrionota

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Chlamydiota vs. Bdellovibrionota

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Voting ended onMar 8, 2024

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Chlamydiota

Group: Hydrobacteria; PVC Group

Gram-stain: Negative

Etymology: For Chlamydia trachomatis, better known as chlamydia. From the Greek "chlamys", meaning "cloaked", based on the misconception of early researchers that it cloaked the nucleus of infected cells.

About: This phylum has perhaps the most recognizable name, and for good reason: it contains the sexually transmitted infection chlamydia (Chlamydia trachomatis), which is the most common STI in humans.

Chlamydia bacteria have a unique lifecycle, and there are two distinct forms that they take: an "elementary body" and a "reticulate body". The bacteria begin their lives as an elementary body, a spore-like stage in which they cannot reproduce. This form is maintained until they can find a cell to infect. When they do so, they enter the cell and transform into a reticulate body. This is the reproductive phase of the chlamydia bacteria, and happens within the cytoplasm of the host cell. The transformed bacterium divides to replicate, several times, and the new bacteria are then released as elementary bodies, that seek out new hosts. One host cell can be used to release up to 1,000 elementary bodies. In the life cycle diagram below, "EB" and "RB" refer to the elementary and reticulate bodies respectively.