@article{mbs:/content/journal/micro/10.1099/00221287-80-1-315, author = "Garrett, A. J. and Harrison, Margaret J. and Manire, G. P.", title = "A Search for the Bacterial Mucopeptide Component, Muramic Acid, in Chlamydia", journal= "Microbiology", year = "1974", volume = "80", number = "1", pages = "315-318", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-80-1-315", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/micro/10.1099/00221287-80-1-315", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1465-2080", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "SUMMARY: Chlamydiae are obligate intracellular parasites. They multiply by binary fission in a complex developmental cycle that involves a series of morphological forms. The mature infectious form, the elementary body, has a rigid wall similar in ultrastructure and amino acid content to the walls of Gram-negative bacteria (Manire & Tamura, 1967; Murray, 1968; Tamura, Matsumoto, Manire & Higashi, 1971). The intermediate form in multiplication, the reticulate body, lacks a rigid wall and is non-infectious.", }