Pathogens
Chlamydophila pneumoniae

Chlamydophila pneumoniae

Precautions

Standard Precautions

Susceptibilities

General Information

Obligate intracellular Gram-negative bacteria that does not Gram stain - an "atypical."

  • Pneumonia
  • URI (sinusitis, pharyngitis)
  • Rarely CNS and cutaneous

Diagnose by PCR: respiratory panel by PCR.

Difficult to culture.