Pathogens
Chlamydophila pneumoniae

Chlamydophila pneumoniae

Precautions

Routine Practices

Susceptibilities

General Information

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

  • Atypical pneumonia

Rare:

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

PCR, turn around time 10 days. Ordered in combination with Mycoplasma pneumoniae.