Isolation ofChlamydia trachomatisfrom Infant Lung Tissue

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Abstract
Chlamydia trachomatis causes inclusion conjunctivitis in newborns1 and is etiologically associated with urethritis in men2 and cervicitis in women.3 Recently, C. trachomatis has been identified as a respiratory colonist and possible pathogen in infants with pneumonia. In one report, the organism was recovered from a 7 1/2-week-old infant with conjunctivitis and pneumonia.4 Also, Beem and Saxon conducted a prospective study of 12 infants with a "distinctive pneumonia syndrome" in which C. trachomatis was isolated from conjunctiva, nasopharynx or trachea alone or in combination.5 However, their attempts to demonstrate chlamydia in tissue obtained from two open-lung biopsies were unsuccessful. In the . . .

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