Chlamydia pneumoniae, strain TWAR, as the cause of an outbreak in a boys' school previously called psittacosis
- 1 October 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Epidemiology and Infection
- Vol. 103 (2) , 395-400
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0950268800030752
Abstract
SUMMARY: Sera from an outbreak of acute respiratory illness in a boys boarding school originally thought to have been due to psittacosis (1) have been re-examined and evidence is presented that suggests that the outbreak was caused by Chlamydia pneumoniae, strain TWAR (2).This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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