Together with scientists from Paris and Munich, a team of researchers working under Prof. Dr. Johannes Hegemann and Dr. Katja Moelleken has published these findings in the journal Proceedings of the ...

The human pathogenic bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis is the most common sexually transmitted bacterial pathogen worldwide. It is estimated to infect more than 100 million people each year and is a ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- An Indiana University biologist has been awarded over $2.3 million from the National Institutes of Health to genetically modify variants of the human pathogen chlamydia in hopes ...

When Chlamydia attacks the human body the immune system starts its defense mechanisms. But the bacteria find a way to defend themselves. Scientists have deciphered new details of their strategy now.

More than half the population of the United States has been exposed to Chlamydia by the age of 20. With over 90 million cases each year and in excess of four million cases in the United States, ...

Chlamydia, the leading cause of sexually transmitted bacterial infections, evades detection and elimination inside human cells by use of a cloaking device. But researchers have grasped the hem of that ...