elementary body

BTO:0000377 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT SEEDED

The infectious form of chlamydiaceae. Infection occurs when the small, rigid-walled extracellular form (elementary body) enters the cell and changes into a larger, thin-walled form (initial body) that divides by fission. The daughter cells thus formed reorganize and condense to become elementary bodies that then infect other cells. The organisms are parasites of humans and other vertebrates, capable of producing a variety of diseases. They have also been found in arthropods. The family contains the genus Chlamydia. — BTO

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Source attestations

Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources — GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.

What each upstream vocabulary says about this habitat
Source	Label / path	Assertions	Unit
PREGO	elementary body	3	TAXON

Broader habitats

organism form BTO:0000284

Associated taxa

Taxa reported from this habitat, which is weaker than being characteristic of it. rank is out of pool: a high rank in a pool of thousands of near-tied scores is a weak claim. Entries corroborated by a second, independent source are listed first.

Taxa reported from this habitat
Taxon	Source	Rank	Pool
Candidatus Rubidus massiliensis `NCBITaxon:1444712`	PREGO	1	3
Parachlamydia acanthamoebae `NCBITaxon:83552`	PREGO	2	3
Chlamydia abortus `NCBITaxon:83555`	PREGO	3	3

Also called

elementary bodies — PREGO

Provenance

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