%0 Journal Article %A Garrett, A. J. %A Harrison, Margaret J. %A Manire, G. P. %T A Search for the Bacterial Mucopeptide Component, Muramic Acid, in Chlamydia %D 1974 %J Microbiology, %V 80 %N 1 %P 315-318 %@ 1465-2080 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-80-1-315 %I Microbiology Society, %X 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. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/micro/10.1099/00221287-80-1-315