Chlamydia-like bacteria in respiratory samples of community-acquired pneumonia patients

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 281, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 198-202

  Haider, Susanne ^a   Collingro, Astrid ^a   Walochnik, Julia ^b   Wagner, Michael ^a   Horn, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acanthamoeba; Parachlamydia; Protochlamydia; Rhabdochlamydia; Simkania; Waddlia

Indexed keywords

CLARITHROMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARACHLAMYDIACEAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIMKANIACEAE; WADDLIACEAE;

ADULT; AGED; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ACANTHAMOEBA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS PROTOCHLAMYDIA; CANDIDATUS PROTOCHLAMYDIA AMOEBOPHILA; CANDIDATUS RHABDOCHLAMYDIA PORCELLIONIS; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIAE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; PARACHLAMYDIA; RHABDOCHLAMYDIA; SIMKANIA; WADDLIA; WADDLIA CHONDROPHILA;

EID: 41049093323     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2008.01099.x     Document Type: Article

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