chlamydia trachomatis infection http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024515 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D002692 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/SNOMEDCT/63938009 http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C86253 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlamydia_trachomatis https://eol.org/pages/974052 https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chlamydia_trachomatis https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131065 A species of facultatively aerobic, Gram-negative, coccobacilli assigned to the phylum Chlamydiae. This species cannot be grown on an artificial medium, lacks peptidoglycan within the cell wall, forms elementary and reticulate bodies and can be identified using monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) to epitopes in the VS 4 region of MOMP along with DNA sequencing. C. trachomatis is an obligate intracellular parasite that can be transmitted through sexual contact causing infections of the genital tract and rectum and infertility in women, as well as cause eye infections. Chlamydia trachomatis QR82.C35 The Complete Dictionary of Sexology