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| Chedid,Maria Bernadete; Chedid,Márcio Fernandes; Ilha,Darcy Oliveira; Bozzetti,Mary Clarisse; Chaves,Letícia; Griza,Daniela; Dalcin,Paulo Roth. |
| As there was not any data on Chlamydia pneumoniae (TWAR) infections in Brazil so far, a prospective cohort study of adult patients hospitalized due to CAP was carried out for one year in a Brazilian university general hospital to detect the incidence of CAP by Chlamydophila pneumoniae (TWAR) for one year. During a whole year 645 consecutive patients hospitalized due to an initial presumptive diagnosis of respiratory diseases by ICD-10 (J00-J99), excluding upper respiratory diseases, were screened; 59 consecutive patients with CAP were diagnosed. They had determinations of serum antibodies to C. pneumoniae by microimmunofluorescence at the Infectious Diseases Laboratory of University of Louisville (KY, USA); 37 patients (63.8%) had seroreactivity to TWAR... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: CAP; Chlamydophila pneumoniae; Microimmunofluorescence; TWAR infections. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702007000100018 |
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