CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ELEMENTARY AND RETICULATE BODIES OF CHLAMYDIA
Table 2
|
ELEMENTARY BODY (EB) |
RETICULATE BODY (RB) |
| Size 0.3 um | Size 0.5 - 1.0 um |
| Ridgid Cell Wall | Fragile cell wall |
| Resistant to sonication | Sensetive to sonication |
| Resistant to tyrpsin | Lysed by trypsin |
| Subunit in cell envelope | No subunit in envelope |
| RNA-DNA content = 1.1 | RNA-DNA content = 3.1 |
| Toxic for mice | Nontoxic for mice |
| Infectious | Not infectious |
| Adapted for extracellular survival | Adapted for intracellular growth |
| Permeable | Nonpermeable |
| Hemagglutinin present | Hemagglutinin absent |
| Induces endosytosis | No endocytosis |
| Metabolically inactive | Metabolically active |
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