Chlamydiales
"Chlamydiales" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An order of obligately intracellular, gram-negative bacteria that have the chlamydia-like developmental cycle of replication. This is a two-stage cycle that includes a metabolically inactive infectious form, and a vegetative form that replicates by binary fission. Members of Chlamydiales are disseminated by aerosol or by contact. There are at least six recognized families: CHLAMYDIACEAE, Criblamydiaceae, Parachlamydiaceae, Rhabdochlamydia, Simkaniaceae, and Waddliaceae.
| Descriptor ID |
D002695
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B03.440.190
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