A Sociological View Of The Venereal Disease Chlamydia

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...of sociological concerns to cities around the world. The disease is an eminent threat to individuals who exhibit behavioral patterns which make them extremely susceptible to this sexually transmitted organism. It claimed four million victims in 2000 alone (Gutierrez and Waller-Scott, 2000). Teens in particular are vulnerable. Areas such as Richmond Virginia, St. Louis Missouri, and Philadelphia are extremely hard hit and present a number of sociological concerns which must be addressed if the impacts of the disease are to be abated (Riley, 2000).
The three species which are classified into the genus Chlamydia are obligate intracellular parasites. Chlamydia are similar to viruses in their reproductive strategy, reproduction is limited to inside a host cell, they cannot reproduce in the absence of a host. Chlamydia use their host cells to obtain several coenzymes, low-molecular-weight building blocks, and the adenosine triphosphate (ATP) essential to cellular energy requirements (Brock, 1984).
Chlamydia are non-motile, coccoid, and gram negative. They range in size between 0.2 and 1.5 micrometers. For a number of years the chlamydias were thought to...

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