Chlamydiae in the environment

Astrid Horn; Stephan Köstlbacher; Matthias Horn

doi:10.1016/j.tim.2020.05.020

Chlamydiae in the environment

Astrid Horn, Stephan Köstlbacher, Matthias Horn (Corresponding author)

Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science

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Abstract

Chlamydiae have been known for more than a century as major pathogens of humans. Yet they are also found ubiquitously in the environment where they thrive within protists and in an unmatched wide range of animals. This review summarizes recent advances in understanding chlamydial diversity and distribution in nature. Studying these environmental chlamydiae provides a novel perspective on basic chlamydial biology and evolution. A picture is beginning to emerge with chlamydiae representing one of the evolutionarily most ancient and successful groups of obligate intracellular bacteria.

Original language	English
Article number	11
Pages (from-to)	877-888
Number of pages	12
Journal	Trends in Microbiology
Volume	28
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2020.05.020 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2020.05.020
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2020

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

106022 Microbiology

Keywords

Chlamydiales
Chlamydia trachomatis
symbionts
amoeba
protists
microbe–host interaction

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Chlamydiae in the environment

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