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- PublicationThe Medical Importance of Chlamydiae(Kuala Lumpur: Institute for Medical Research, 1984)Jerngklinchan, JaowapaChlamydias are obligatory intracellular parasites which were discovered b Halberstaedter and Prowazek in 1907. (Schachter, & Danson, 1979) At that time, it was discovered in producing the inclusion in the conjenctiva an d shortly thereater, the chlamydial infections of the human genital tract were recognized . At first, the chlamydiae, long considered to be viruses, have an uncertain taxonomic status. But they are now considered to belong to the family chlamydiaceae, which contain the genus chlamdiae. The organisms belonging to this genus are obligate procaryotis parasites that re[licate intraccellularly in eukaryocytes. All members of this genus undergo a complex develpomental cycle within the host cell cytoplasm and share a common antigen.