Exam 43: Obligate Intracellular and Nonculturable Bacterial Agents

Of the following organisms, which has a unique developmental life cycle including a replicative form, the reticulate body, and an extracellular, metabolically inert, infective form, the elementary body?

The intracellular growth, or replicative form, of the Chlamydia is called the

The organisms in the genus Chlamydia can be described as

A prokaryote that differs from most other bacteria with respect to its very small size and obligate intracellular parasitism is

A prokaryote that differs from most other bacteria with respect to its very small size and obligate intracellular parasitism is

The most common sexually transmitted bacterial pathogen and a major cause of pelvic inflammatory disease is

Rickettsia can be described as

Of the following organisms, which can be described as fastidious obligate intracellular parasites that multiply by binary fission in the cytoplasm of host cells and which infect humans as accidental hosts in most cases?

Which of the following bacteria are fastidious, pleomorphic, gram-negative bacilli, are obligate intracellular parasites that survive only briefly outside of a host (reservoir or vector), and can multiply only intracellularly?

Diagnosis of C.trachomatis is done by which methodology?

The extracellular, metabolically inert, infective form of the Chlamydia is called the