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What is the most common cause of bacterial sexually transmitted disease. Its cell wall lacks what structure?
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Chlamydia trachomatis is the most common bacterial STD and is recognized by the fact that its cell wall lacks muramic acid.
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C. trachomatis is also responsible for trachoma, the most common cause of preventible blidness in the world. What serotypes are especially known to cause blindness.
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Serotypes, A,B, and C are known to cause chronic infections and blindness especially in the African continent.
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What diseases do serotypes D-K cause?
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Types D-K cause urethritis, pelvic inflammatory disease, neonatal pneumonia, and neonatal conjunctiva.
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What diseases do serotypes, L1, L2, and L3 cause?
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Types L1, L2 and L3 are responsible for lymphogranuloma venereum, a disease that presents initially with a painless genital papule, which then proceeds to inguinal lymphadenopathy and possibly genital elephantiasis.
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Pelvic inflammatory disease increases the risk of what complications?
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Infertility and ectopic pregnancy.
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Why is C. trachomatis considered an obligate intracellular parasite?
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C. trachomatis is unable to make its own ATP.
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Which form of C. trachomatis is metabolically active, the reticulate body or elementary body?
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The reticulate form is metabolically active, is found in cells and replicates by fission. The elementary form is the infective form that enters cells by endocytosis.
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What is Fitz-Hugh- Curtis syndrome?
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An infection of the liver capsule secondary to pelvic inflammatory disease caused by Neisseria gonorrhea or Chlamydia. Patients present with right upper quadrant (RUQ) pain and sepsis.
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