Does Chlamydia Trachomatis Have a Capsule?

The cells contain no capsule or flagella. There are no detectable flavoproteins or cytochromes. It appears that the basis of the obligate intracellular parasitism is due to a lack of ATP-generating ability and the need to obtain ATP from the host cell.

Does Chlamydia have cell wall?

Chlamydiae have a complex cell wall (similar to gram-negative bacteria in composition), both DNA and RNA, prokaryotic ribosomes, and metabolic enzymes that would permit independent existence, except that they lack energy-production mechanisms.

What is Chlamydia spp?

Chlamydia species are a group of obligately intracellular bacteria that replicate inside of a cytoplasmic inclusion. They form spore-like structures that are called elementary bodies and are released from host cells and infect other cells (Storz & Kaltenboeck in Woldehiwet_Chlamydial Dis 363, 1993).