Chapter Five Chlamydia : A Disease without a History

• Tác giả: Michael Worboys
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Thông tin xuất bản: Rochester : University of Rochester Press, 2019
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (31 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 241660
• Chủ đề: 1. History of medicine

Tóm tắt

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.