This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Most Americans became aware of chlamydia, a sexually transmitted disease more common than syphilis, gonorrhea and herpes, in the mid-1980s. But Julius Schachter, a microbiologist at the University of California, San Francisco, had already been studying the bacterium that causes chlamydia for two decades. Dr. Schachter died on Dec. 20 at a hospital in San Francisco. The cause was complications of Covid-19, his daughter, Dr. Sara Schachter, said.
Source: International New York Times January 05, 2021 19:07 UTC