Ed Richard S Stevens. $84.95. American Society for Microbiology, 1999. ISBN 1-55581-155-8

This book is a must for anyone interested in how this fascinating organism causes damage. The first part reviews the knowledge on the molecular phylogeny, genomic autobiography, developmental biology, and metabolism of chlamydiae. It shows how far our knowledge of the organism has broadened in the past few years, particularly as gene sequencing has changed our view of chlamydiae. Until this was made available, metabolic studies on chlamydiae were hampered by its intracellular obligate nature, lack of knowledge of the enzyme pathways, and the relatively small genome …