An elderly man in the Netherlands ended up suffering serious pneumonia after being infected with a bacteria strain not seen ...

Southwestern Sydney's koalas have avoided the chlamydia outbreak threatening the entire species. But their isolation has left them extremely inbred.

Koalas are facing a shocking health crisis: widespread chlamydia infections — so are they born with the STD and how do they ...

The bacterium chlamydia trachomatis is a major cause of sexually transmitted diseases. Bacteria have lots of tricks up their sleeve that help them survive inside cells. One strategy that chlamydia ...

Women get PID when bacteria enter the vagina but then move upwards out of the vagina or cervix and into the reproductive organs. Chlamydia is the most common cause of PID in developed countries.

Illustration depicting a chlamydia-infected cell. Chlamydia trachomatis bacteria (represented by small dark spherical shapes colorized blue) undergo development within a membrane-enclosed ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins University in the United States have made a portable device that detects chlamydia in just 30 ...

Since macrolides are bacteriostatic antibiotics, the eradication of Chlamydia strains and other intracellular bacteria is unlikely, and the beneficial effects are only minor and transient.

Doctors have used nucleic acid amplification testing (NAAT) to screen the DNA of chlamydia bacteria. But NAAT is more complex and expensive. However, mobiLap, which has a DNA and data processing ...