Research on how intracellular bacteria take control of their hosts is not only informing scientists about how these microbes cause disease, but revealing secrets of mammalian biology, says Mukherjee, ...

Various microbes, including several human pathogens, hijack the cell’s skeleton, membranes, and protein-making machinery to make themselves at home. Intracellular bacteria use various tricks to ...

The organisation says that it is an obligate intracellular bacteria that is found in many species of bird and mammals worldwide. However koalas suffer from both bacterium species chlamydia ...