Pawlikowska Małgorzata, Deptuła Wiesław
Katedra Mikrobiologii i Immunologii Wydziału Nauk Przyrodniczych Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego.
Postepy Hig Med Dosw (Online). 2007 Nov 27;61:708-17.
Chlamydiae and Chlamydophilae are bacteria which are very common in the environment, the proof of which can be the recently described "environmental Chlamydiae". The classical Chlamydiae, such as Chlamydia trachomatis and Chlamydophila pneumoniae, posed a threat to human health, causing several diseases, including those with lethal course. In this article the biology and systematics of these bacteria and the diseases caused by them in humans, including those caused by classical and environmental Chlamydiae, are presented.
衣原体和嗜衣原体是在环境中非常常见的细菌，最近描述的“环境衣原体”就是证明。典型的衣原体，如沙眼衣原体和肺炎嗜衣原体，对人类健康构成威胁，可引发多种疾病，包括一些致命性疾病。本文介绍了这些细菌的生物学、分类学以及它们在人类中引起的疾病，包括由典型衣原体和环境衣原体引起的疾病。
