Chlamydia trachomatis

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Genome structure

The genome of Chlamydia trachomatis contains 1,042,519 base pairs of DNA encoding 938 genes. C. trachomatis strains have an extrachromosomal plasmid, which was sequenced to be a 7493-base pair plasmid.