Collaborative multidisciplinary workshop report: what questions regarding the role of Chlamydia pneumoniae in atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease need to be addressed utilizing animal models?

Ignatius W. Fong, Thomas Quinn, Erwin Blessing, Cho-chou Kuo, Raffaele Malinverni, Michael Lauer, Steven Mawhorter, Kurt Bachmaier, Michael Rosenfeld, Christopher Taylor, and Guangming Zhong Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, St. Michael’s Hospital, and Amgen Institute, Toronto, and Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada; Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; Department of Pathobiology and Department of Pathobiology and Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; Department of Medicine, Hôpital des Cadolles, Neuchâtel, Switzerland; Department of Cardiology and Department of Infectious Disease, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio