Southwestern Sydney's koalas have avoided the chlamydia outbreak threatening the entire species. But their isolation has left them extremely inbred.

The eastern and southern forests of Australia are home to koalas. This habitat is being destroyed by human deforestation as ...

trachomatis, a sexually transmitted species, and C. pneumoniae, a ubiquitous pathogen primarily infecting the ... pneumoniae infections, as well as suppressing its pathological consequences, is the ...

“He was also a legend in the sexually transmitted disease world, discovering that various chlamydia species could lead to systemic disease, and running the international chlamydial meetings.” Trachoma ...

However koalas suffer from both bacterium species chlamydia pneumonia and chlamydia pecorum. The BBC reports that not only is the disease killing thousands of koalas but also making them sterile ...

Two koalas, part of a population in southwest Sydney already under threat from development, were found infected with chlamydia in September, the NSW environment department said in a statement on ...