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Evidence for additional genus-level diversity of<i>Chlamydiales</i>in the environment
1 Oct 2001
Abstract excerpt
The medically important order Chlamydiales has long been considered to contain a few closely related bacteria which occur exclusively in animals and humans. This perception of diversity and habitat had to be revised with the recent identification of the genera Simkania, Waddlia, Parachlamydia, and Neochlamydia with the latter two comprising endosymbionts of amoebae. Application of a newly developed PCR assay for...
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