Chlamydia pneumoniae–Reactive Arthritis and Persistent Infection

Persistent infection of Chlamydia in reactive arthritis.

A number of bacteria have been implicated as causing reactive arthritis. In epidemiological studies Chlamydia have been identified as the most common bacteria triggering reactive arthritis in Western countries. Only 1–3% of patients acquiring infection at the urogenital tract as the primary site of infection develop Chlamydia-induced arthritis. It has been shown that C trachomatis reaches the j...

Undifferentiated arthritis: predictive factors of persistent arthritis and treatment decisions

A number of patients with inflammatory arthritis due to inadequate clinical or laboratory data do not fulfill diagnostic criteria for a clinical disease categories. These patients with initial diagnosis of undifferentiated arthritis (UA) may remit or progress to a definite well- defined condition such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or remain as UA with persistence of inflammatory arthritis. The m...

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...

Consensus by Chinese Expert Panel on Chlamydia trachomatis-Resistant and Chlamydia trachomatis-Persistent Infection

Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct) genital infection is the most common sexually transmitted disease (STD) in China and the US. The morbidity of Ct genital infection in China has increased from 32.48/100,000 in 2008 to 37.18/100,000 in 2015.[1] The major areas of Ct infections are concentrated in the Zhujiang Delta, Changjiang Delta, Minjiang Area, and West China. In these areas, the highest incidence ...

Transcriptional analysis of persistent Chlamydia pneumoniae infection in vitro