Chlamydia pneumoniae Infection
Association of Chlamydia pneumoniae Infection with HLA-B*35 in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease
... between Chlamydia pneumoniae infection and coronary artery disease ...C. pneumoniae immunoglobulin A (IgA) (titer, > 40) or IgG (titer, > 128) antibodies or immune complex (IC)-bound IgG ...
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Acute Glomerulonephritis in a Child with Chlamydia pneumoniae Infection: A Case Report
... patients, Chlamydia pneumoniae is a rare cause of renal complications and it may manifest in several ways, mainly involving the respiratory system, even if also renal and glomerulalr complications, have ...
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In vitro response of host cell to Chlamydia pneumoniae infection, an ultra structure investigation
... mechanisms. Chlamydia pneumoniae is an obligate intracellular organism adequately equipped to display spectrum of novel interaction with host cell that contributes to their success as ...of infection ...
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Effect of age and vaccination on extent and spread of Chlamydia pneumoniae infection in C57BL/6 mice
... C. pneumoniae infection, more extensive inflammation and consolidation within the infected lung, enhanced spread of ...C. pneumoniae to the cardiovascular system and increased inflammation within the ...
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Is Chlamydia pneumoniae Infection Associated With Stroke in Children With Sickle Cell Disease?
... Real-time PCR for Chlamydia pneumoniae based on existing primer set CPN90 and CPN91 for Roche Lightcycler. In: Schachter J, Christiansen G, Clarke IN, Hammerschlag MR, Kaltenboeck B, Kuo CC, Rank RG, ...
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Chlamydia pneumoniae infection and cerebrovascular disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis
... Our search initially identified 1151 unique citations, of which the majority were excluded after the first screen- ing of titles and abstracts, and mainly because they were reviews, case-reports, letters or irrelevant to ...
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Paraoxonase Gene Polymorphism and Chlamydia pneumoniae Infection in Ischemic Vascular Disease.
... against Chlamydia pneumonia (C. pneumoniae) has been found in different populations suggesting that more number of people are infected with chlamydia (10, ...C. pneumoniae might play a role in ...
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Persistent Chlamydia Pneumoniae serology is related to decline in lung function in women but not in men. Effect of persistent Chlamydia pneumoniae infection on lung function
... seroconversion without reinfection or reactivation [14]. In young military recruits IgG antibody levels measured by microimmunofluorescence test decrease rapidly after the infection [15]. The ...
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Lack of association between vascular dementia and Chlamydia pneumoniae infection: a case-control study
... C. pneumoniae in post-mortem brain samples and late-onset Alzheimer's ...C. pneumoniae infection contrib- utes to Alzheimer's disease, found an improved long-term cognitive state in patients with ...
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Rabbit model for Chlamydia pneumoniae infection
... C. pneumoniae has demonstrated his- tological evidence of bronchiolitis and pneumonitis similar to the results of the mouse model (29, ...C. pneumoniae has been isolated from the lungs up to 42 days in this ...
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The pathogenic significance of Chlamydia pneumoniae infection
... this infection is derived mainly from serological studies (Wang and Grayston, ...C. pneumoniae infection occurs throughout the world, and is one of the most prevalent infectious agents in both ...
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Molecular Diagnosis of Chlamydia pneumoniae Infection
... Cardiovascular infection. PCR is commonly used, alone or in combination with other diagnostic methods, for the detec- tion of C. pneumoniae in the cardiovascular system. C. pneu- moniae DNA has been ...
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New Interpretation of Galileo’s Arthritis and Blindness
... a Chlamydia pneumoniae infection taken during the febrile episode of the summer weekend in the villa near Padua, where he and his friends had an acute illness af- ter a prolonged exposition to a cool ...
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Production of Chlamydia pneumoniae Proteins in Bacillus subtilis and Their Use in Characterizing Immune Responses in the Experimental Infection Model
... C. pneumoniae proteins (MOMP, Omp2, and Hsp60) in ...C. pneumoniae (MOMP and Omp2) were at the denatured ...microbial infection the range of an- tibodies covers both native and denatured epitopes of ...
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Possible Effect of Chlamydophila pneumoniae on COPD Exacerbation
... S. pneumoniae and ...C. pneumoniae in patients with acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis appears to vary considerably from as low as 4–5% to >30% ...
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Detection of Chlamydia pneumoniae by polymerase chain reaction
... pneumoniae isolates tested were amplified by the HL-1-HR-1 primer pair or the HM-1-HR-1 primer pair, producing the expected 437- and 229-bp amplification products, respectively.. Reactio[r] ...
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The atherogenic effects of chlamydia are dependent on serum cholesterol and specific to Chlamydia pneumoniae
... were the follow- ing: (a) This antibody can recognize a chlamydial genus- specific epitope on LPS (27). Therefore, both AR39 and MoPn organisms can be detected with the same antibody. (b) LPS epitopes are generally more ...
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Importance of Methodology in Determination of Chlamydia pneumoniae Seropositivity in Healthy Subjects and in Patients with Coronary Atherosclerosis
... Established cardiovascular risk factors, such as hyperten- sion, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes mellitus, age, gender, cig- arette smoking, and family history, do not completely explain all new cases of atherosclerotic ...
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Species identification of Chlamydia isolates by analyzing restriction fragment length polymorphism of the 16S 23S rRNA spacer region
... of Chlamydia species ...C. pneumoniae is highly conserved (3), the 16S-23S rRNA spacer region was chosen as the ...a Chlamydia-specific primer in the 16S * Corresponding ...
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Antigenic variation among strains of Chlamydia pneumoniae
... Serum from the patient infected with CWL-050 reacted weakly with strains CWL-029 and CM-1 to form only a single 50-kDa band, but it formed patterns of bands when it was reacted with anti[r] ...
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