Chlamydial Pneumonia in Infants

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Schachter1 recently reviewed the impressive progress that has been made in understanding of chlamydial infections, since Halberstaedter and von Prowazeck demonstrated the characteristic cytoplasmic inclusions in conjunctival scrapings from patients with trachoma.2 Chlamydia trachomatis is an intracellular parasite with many of the characteristics of bacteria, including susceptibility to several antimicrobial agents such as sulfisoxazole, tetracycline or erythromycin. It is responsible for 30 to 50 per cent of cases of nongonococcal urethritis in men,1 and in women, chlamydiae can cause cervicitis, which is often asymptomatic. Infants may acquire the organism during delivery, with development of neonatal inclusion conjunctivitis (inclusion blennorrhea). Since . . .

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