Pathogens
Chlamydophila pneumonia

Chlamydophila pneumonia

Precautions

Routine Practices

Susceptibilities

General Information

Fastidious organism that does not Gram stain - an "atypical"

  • Atypical pneumonia
  • Guillane-Barre Syndrome
  • Meningoencephalitis
  • Reactive arthritis
  • Myocarditis

Diagnose by serology.

Difficult to culture.

PCR available by MOC approval.