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Title:
The big bang theory of early Chlamydia development
Authors:
Rhett Iculate and Ella Mentary
Presenting Author: Rhett Iculate
 Postdoc
Institution:
 Graduate student (for best oral and poster presentation awards)
Institute of Obligate Intracellular Pathogens
Chlamydia spp. cause a spectrum of disease that ranges from infectious blindness
to sexually transmitted disease to respiratory infections. In the beginning of an
intracellular infection, the organism exists as a dense elementary body that then
expands to become a reticulate body. The early events in this process are not well
understood, and we propose a model to explain......