46- Chlamydia

Question 1

What is the lift cycle of chlamydia?

Answer 1

• Life cycle includes going into a cell via ingestion, organizing itself into reticular bodies, then more growth, then reorganized into elementary bodies, then massive exodus of cells.

Question 2

Why is chlamydia obligate intracellular parasites?

Answer 2

• They require host cell ATP to grow, making them energy parasites (will not grow without host ATP).

Question 3

C. trachomatis- diseases

Answer 3

Trachoma, ocular trachoma, oculogenital disease, infant pneumonia

Question 4

C. trachomatis- presentations

Answer 4

Watery discharge, elementary/reticulate bodies, PMNs

Question 5

C. pneumonia- disease

Answer 5

Bronchitis, pneumonia, sinusitis

Question 6

C. pneumonia- lab findings

Answer 6

Respiratory droplets, elementary/reticulate bodies, ELISA

Question 7

C. psittaci- disease

Answer 7

parrot fever

Question 8

C. psittaci- vector

Answer 8

birds

Question 9

Lymphogranuloma venereum- disease

Answer 9

STD, coinfection