Sentences with phrase «trachomatis bacteria»

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Scientists have sequenced the entire genome of Chlamydia trachomatis, the enigmatic bacterium that's the leading cause of venereal disease in the United States.

Part of the control strategy for trachoma — repeated eye infections caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis — is facial cleanliness.

Chlamydia trachomatis is inactivated by lauric acid, capric acid, and monocaprin (Bergsson et al 1998), and hydrogels containing monocaprin are potent in vitro inactivators of sexually transmitted viruses such as HSV - 2 and HIV - 1 and bacteria such as Neisseria gonorrhoeae (Thormar 1999).

In the younger age group, epididymitis is usually caused by sexually transmitted bacteria, including Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Chlamydia trachomatis, and Escherichia coli, which have spread from the urethra to the testicles.