Final answer:
The statement that chlamydia is a fastidious organism requiring complex nutrients for growth in laboratory conditions is true. It's a challenging pathogen to culture, necessitating specialized environments such as tissue cultures, and detection has improved with PCR-based methods.
Step-by-step explanation:
Chlamydia is indeed a fastidious organism, which means it grows under laboratory conditions in media supplemented with elaborate and complex nutrients. Therefore, the correct answer to whether chlamydia grows under laboratory conditions in media supplemented with elaborate and complex nutrients is A) True. Chlamydia, specifically C. trachomatis, is an intracellular pathogen that requires living cells to multiply, making it challenging to grow in a standard laboratory setting. Instead, it often requires tissue cultures for proper growth and multiple passages to proliferate. C. trachomatis is also known for causing the most frequently reported sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the United States, chlamydia. Its diagnosis has been historically difficult due to these growth requirements, but recent advances in PCR- and serologically based tests have made it easier to identify.