Lack of association between serum antibodies of Chlamydia pneumoniae infection and the risk of lung cancer.

Jennifer S. Smith*, Urban Kumlin, Fredrik Nyberg, Cristina Fortes, David Zaridze, Wolfgang Ahrens, Irene Bruske-Hohlfeld, Vali Constantinescu, Jie Ting, Simone Benhamou, Lorenzo Simonato, Jens Boman, Valerie Gaborieau and Paolo Boffetta Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC Department of Virology, University of Umeå, Umeå, Sweden Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Istituto Dermopatico dell’Immacolata, Rome, Italy Institute of Carcinogenesis, Russian N.N. Blokhin Cancer Research Centre, Moscow, Russia Bremen Institute for Prevention Research and Social Medicine, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum M€ unchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich, Germany National Institute of Public Health, Bucharest, Romania Institut National de la Sant e et de la Recherche M edicale (INSERM U794), Paris, France Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, University of Padua, Padua, Italy International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France