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Chlamydial Infections

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Bacterial Infections of Humans

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There are five quite different disease patterns that result from human infection with chlamydial organisms. Infection with Chlamydia trachomatis, by far the most important as a human pathogen, may result in trachoma, a variety of other syndromes that accompany ocular or genital infection, or lymphogranuloma venereum (Lgv). C. psittacii has one human disease manifestation—psittacosis. The fifth pattern is respiratory disease caused by C. pneumoniae. This species of Chlamydia was previously unclassified and was referred to as Twar strains(26) (after Taiwan and Acute Respiratory studies, from which they were first recovered).

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