Chapter Five Chlamydia
Subtitle: A Disease without a History
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Rochester
Number of pages: 31
Subjects: History of medicine
Description: Since the late 1990s chlamydia has been the most commonly reported sexually
transmitted infection (STI) in Europe and the United States. The
infection is caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis (C. trachomatis),
and its common name follows a pattern established in the late nineteenth
century, where an infection is named after its causal pathogen.
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