An organism intermediate in size and complexity between a virus and a bacterium, and which is parasitic within the cells of insects and ticks. Included here are all the chlamydias, also called 'PLT' for psittacosis-lymphogranuloma venereum-trachoma.
(Slot-Value-Type Rickettsia-Or-Chlamydia
Cause-Of
Pathologic-Function)
(=> (Rickettsia-Or-Chlamydia ?Self)
(And (Exists (?A)
(And (Parasitic ?Self ?A)
(Cell ?A)
(Exists (?B)
(And (Prime-Component-Of ?A ?B)
(Or (Insect ?B) (Tick ?B))))))
(Exists (?C)
(And (Reference-Location-Of ?Self ?C)
(Biologically-Active-Substance ?C)))))