Chlamydia pneumoniae infection in children with persistent cough

Relevance of serology for Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection among children with persistent cough.

BACKGROUND Mycoplasma pneumoniae is an important cause of upper and lower respiratory tract infections. Cough and tracheobronchitis are the commonest features of M. pneumoniae infection but diagnosis based on clinical symptoms that may be due to other respiratory pathogens is impossible. Thus laboratory testing for M. pneumoniae is particularly important. Correct and rapid diagnosis of M. pneum...

Transcriptional analysis of persistent Chlamydia pneumoniae infection in vitro

Chlamydia pneumoniae infection in adults with chronic cough compared with healthy blood donors.

In a small uncontrolled study, persistent cough has recently been found to be associated with serological evidence of acute Chlamydia pneumoniae infection. In order to assess whether C. pneumoniae plays a role in chronic cough, the prevalence of C. pneumoniae infection in 201 adult patients with chronic cough was compared with the prevalence in 106 healthy blood donors without respiratory tract...

Correlation between persistent chlamydia pneumoniae infection and primary IgA nephropathy

To investigate the correlation between chlamydia pneumoniae (CP) infection and IgG nephropathy (IgAN). Seventy cases with primary IgAN were chosen along with 70 healthy blood donors and 12 cases which died of accidents, from which serum samples and kidney tissues obtained at autopsies were collected, respectively. CP IgG and CP IgA antibody titers in the serum were detected by using indirect im...

Chronic Chlamydia pneumoniae infection and asthma exacerbations in children.

This study was undertaken to investigate the reported association between Chlamydia pneumoniae and Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection and the expression of asthma-related symptoms. One hundred and eight children with asthma symptoms, aged 9-11 yrs, completed a 13 month longitudinal study. The children maintained a daily diary of respiratory symptoms and peak flow rates. When respiratory symptoms w...