B Lung cell . 2 " Chlamydophila " enters the cell . 3 Elementary body becomes a reticulate body . 4 Replication . 5 Reticulate bodies become elementary bodies and are released to infect other cells.
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B Lung cell . 2 " Chlamydophila " enters the cell . 3 Elementary body becomes a reticulate body . 4 Replication . 5 Reticulate bodies become elementary bodies and are released to infect other cells.
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Thus, the lifecycle of " C . pneumoniae " is divided between the elementary body, which is able to infect new hosts but cannot replicate, and the reticulate body, which replicates but is not able to cause new infection.
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Studies on the growth cycle of " C . trachomatis " and " C . psittaci " in cell cultures " in vitro " reveal that the infectious elementary body ( EB ) develops into a noninfectious reticulate body ( RB ) within a cytoplasmic vacuole in the infected cell.
