Chlamydial eye infections: Current perspectives

Chlamydial eye infections: Current perspectives

Chlamydia trachomatis, an obligate intraocular bacteria causing trachoma, adult and neonatal inclusion conjunctivitis, was the leading cause of blindness in the last century worldwide. Improvement in socioeconomic and living conditions, availability of antibiotics, and introduction of National Trachoma Control Programmes reduced the prevalence in developed countries, but it persisted in resourc...

Genital Chlamydial Infections

N Engl J Med 2003;349:2424-30. Copyright © 2003 Massachusetts Medical Society. A 19-year-old woman visits her primary care provider for counseling about contraception. She became sexually active one year previously and has had a new sexual partner for the past three months. Her partner currently uses a condom intermittently for contraception, and she inquires about oral contraceptives. She repo...

Chlamydial infections in man.

The earliest reference to a disease now known to be of chlamydial aetiology is to be found in the EBERS papyrus (1500 B.C.). A cicatrizing eye disease, and its treatment with copper salts, is described. This disease was first called 'trachoma' (rough eye) in A.D. 60 by the Sicilian physician Pedonius Diascarides. Moses' warning concerning the 'running issue of his flesh' (Leviticus 15 w. 1-2) m...

Pathogenesis of Chronic Chlamydial Infections

Introduction Chlamydia pneumoniae was initially recognized as a cause of acute lower respiratory tract infections such as pneumonia and bronchitis in both adults and children (1-7), hence the species name “pneumoniae.” Moreover, C. pneumoniae was noted in some individuals to cause a persistent respiratory tract infection following an acute infection (8), which is entirely consistent with the kn...

Chlamydial infections of the cervix.