Pneumonia Due toChlamydia trachomatisin an Immunocompromised Adult
| Autor: | H. Robert Harrison, Richard E. Sobonya, Keith A. Comess, C. George Ray, James I. Ito, Jeffrey Kiviat, E. Russell Alexander |
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| Rok vydání: | 1982 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Chronic bronchitis Chlamydia trachomatis medicine.disease_cause Acute lymphocytic leukemia Immune Tolerance Humans Medicine Lung Pneumonitis biology business.industry Respiratory disease Pneumonia General Medicine Chlamydia Infections medicine.disease respiratory tract diseases Leukemia Myeloid Acute Cytomegalovirus Infections Immunology biology.protein Sputum Antibody medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | New England Journal of Medicine. 307:95-98 |
| ISSN: | 1533-4406 0028-4793 |
| DOI: | 10.1056/nejm198207083070205 |
| Popis: | CHLAMYDIA trachomatis infection has been associated with a wide spectrum of syndromes ranging from ocular to genital-tract diseases. It has been implicated as the cause of a pneumonitis syndrome in infants.1 , 2 Tack et al. have reported on six patients with various underlying conditions (chronic bronchitis, renal allografts, and acute lymphocytic leukemia), most of whom had radiographic evidence of pneumonia.3 C. trachomatis was isolated from sputum, bronchial brushings, or lung tissue in all six. However, the etiologic role of this organism in these patients with respiratory disease remained in question because no antibody to C. trachomatis was demonstrated in the serum . . . |
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