Chlamydia
Hello there! My name is Chlamydia trachomatis; you can call me trachomatis for short. These really smart people you humans like to call scientists in 1907 identified me. They told me I was a bacteria. Now, when people think of bacteria they think if itsy bitsy things, and that’s true we are very tiny. About one thousand of us could fit in the little millimeter space on a ruler! Now that I have been alive a while, I have learned that human consider bacteria bad or gross, but really I'm just doing what it takes for me to stay alive.
I enter the body through vaginal, anal, or oral sexual intercourse, and most babies whose mother that I have infected will also get me, even before they are born. Almost immediately from entering the body, I start to reproduce. I reproduce asexually using a process known as binary fission, where the single chromosome that makes up the DNA in me is reproduced as an identical copy of the original. Then I split in two (it is not......
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