Publications

[specific activity of cattle immunoglobulins in experimental chlamydia infection].		1978	571173
the use of cycloheximide-treated cells for isolating trachoma agents under field conditions.	standard procedures for the isolation of chlamydia trachomatis require pretreatment of the tissue culture cells. we evaluated the use of cycloheximide, an antimetabolite that can be added to the cells with the inoculum. cycloheximide-treated cells provided a sensitive system for isolating trachoma agents. this system was applicable to field studies as requirements for equipment were minimal and the cells were 2 weeks old when inoculated.	1978	310363
tetracyclines in gynecologic infections.	the use of tetracyclines in salpingitis and in postsurgical gynecological infections is outlined. unless the patient is allergic, the drug of choice in gonococcal salpingitis is penicillin or a derivative. however, a study of outpatients with gonococcal salpingitis showed that a majority of 197 women studied became asymptomatic 5 days after starting tetracycline treatment. in nongonococcal acute salpingitis, evidence is good that both aerobic and anaerobic organisms are usually involved, espe ...	1978	272213
update on chlamydia and mycoplasmas in vulvovaginitis.		1978	581685
chlamydial pneumonia and human sexuality.		1978	581749
[use of the immunofluorescent microagglutination reaction for the purpose of studying ornithosis infection. 1. production and approbation of a corpuscular luminescent diagnosticum].	a method of obtaining the fluorescent ornithosis corpuscular diagnostic agent providing for the extraction of the corpuscular antigen with its subsequent conjugation with fluorochrome-fluoresceine isothiocyanate. the use of this preparation permits to stage the agglutination reaction on the basis of immunofluorescent analysis, this facilitating the recording of the reaction results and considerably decreasing consumption of the diagnostic agent. as shown, the suggested immunofluorescent microagg ...	1978	371295
in vitro assays of the efficacy of antimicrobial agents in controlling chlamydia trachomatis propagation.	the antimicrobial susceptibility of a low-laboratory-passage, slow-growing, genital chlamydia trachomatis strain was studied by five different procedures with the use of mccoy cells pretreated with 5-iodo-2-deoxyuridine. the effects of antimicrobial agents when added to cultures on day 0 or day 2 after inoculation with c. trachomatis and the effects of washing and reincubating treated cultures in antimicrobial-free media were investigated. tetracycline and erythromycin inhibited c. trachomatis g ...	1978	162541
pertussoid eosinophilic pneumonia.		1978	620546
chlamydia trachomatis as a cause of acute "idiopathic" epididymitis.	to assess the etiologic role of c. trachomatis and other micro-organisms in "idiopathic" epididymitis, 23 men underwent microbiologic studies, including cultures of epididymal aspirates in 16. eleven of 13 men under the age of 35 years had c. trachomatis infection whereas eight of 10 over 35 had coliform urinary-tract infection. cultures of epididymal aspirates yielded c. trachomatis alone in five of six men under 35, and coliform bacteria alone in five of 10 over 35. these results suggest that ...	1978	622087
psittacosis outbreak in employees of a turkey-processing plant.	in june 1976, 28 employees of a nebraska poultry processing plant had clinical onset of an illness compatible with psittacosis. the diagnosis was serologically confirmed in 22 patients by fourfold or greater changes in their complement fixation antibody titers, using a chlamydia group antigen. lack of serologic response in the remaining patients could not be readily explained by therapy differences, timing of serologic evaluation, or severity of clinical illness. the comparable attack rates in t ...	1978	623096
division of single host cells after infection with chlamydiae.	mouse fibroblasts (l cells) were infected in suspension with chlamydia psittaci (6bc) and then plated out on a solid substrate at a density of 80 cells per cm2 so that the effect of chlamydial infection on the division of single host cells and their progeny could be determined. uninfected l cells multiplied with a mean generation time of 15 h. the generation time of single l cells infected with 1.5 50% infectious units (id50) of c. psittaci was over twice as long. half of the infected l cells ha ...	1978	624590
chlamydia trachomatis infant pneumonitis: comparison with matched controls and other infant pneumonitis.	we determined the prevalence of chlamydia trachomatis infection in 30 consecutive hospitalized infants less than six months of age with pneumonitis and in 28 matched controls (nine of 30 vs. one of 28. p less than 0.05). in comparing 16 cases of pneumonitis due to c. trachomatis with 27 not due to that agent, we found several distinguishing clinical and laboratory features: c. trachomatis was highly correlated with radiographic hyperinflation, prolonged cough and congestion, greater than or equa ...	1978	628397
[doxycycline hyclate in the treatment of non-gonococcal urethritis].	91 men with non-gonococcal urethritis (including urethritis due to chlamydia trachomatis and non-specific urethritis) were treated by a 14-day course of doxycycline hyclate; 75% were considered cured at follow-up on the 10th day and 3-4 months post-treatment. the results show a bettter cure rate (83%) in urethritis due to chlamydia trachomatis than in non-specific urethritis (64%). a 5-day course of doxycycline hyclate was disappointing and was followed by a very high recurrence rate in both gro ...	1978	628825
role of chlamydia trachomatis and hla-b27 in sexually acquired reactive arthritis.	inflammatory arthritis, tendinitis, and fasciitis after non-specific urethritis ("sexually acquired reactive arthritis" (sara)) was studied prospectively in 531 men with non-specific urethritis, with particular reference to the frequency of isolation of chlamydia trachomatis and the presence of hla-b27. satisfactory cultures were obtained from the urethral swabs from 384 patients; and hla typing was performed on 482, of whom 30 (6%) were hla-b27-positive. arthritis developed in 16 patients, and ...	1978	630254
chlamydia psittaci infection of horses with respiratory disease.	two strains of chlamydia psittaci were isolated from the nasal tract of horses with acute respiratory disease. these 2 isolates (ns 121 and ns 172) were characterized as chlamydia on the basis of their morphology, tinctorial property, growth in chicken embryos, inability to grow on bacterial media and their possession of chlamydial common complement fixing group antigen. they were identified as c. psittaci on the basis of resistance to sodium sulphadiazine. the present strains were not pathogeni ...	1978	631105
kinetics of phagocytosis of chlamydia psittaci by mouse fibroblasts (l cells): separation of the attachment and ingestion stages.	the kinetics of phagocytosis of chlamydia psittaci (6bc) by monolayers of mouse fibroblasts (l cells) was studied with an assay that distinguished between the attachment and ingestion phases of phagocytosis. at multiplicities of 10 and 100 50% infectious doses (id50) per l cell, virtually all of the inoculated c. psittaci had been attached and ingested after 60 min at 37 degrees c. at multiplicities of 500 to 5,000 id50 per l cell, the initial rates of attachment and ingestion of c. psittaci to ...	1978	631892
childhood trachoma in a nonendemic area. danish trachoma patients and their close contacts, 1963 to 1973.	during ten years of study of chlamydia trachomatis eye infections, trachoma was diagnosed in 14 danish patients with onset during childhood. clinical findings in the eye were characteristic of classical trachoma. the infecting c trachomatis immunotype was identified in all but one case. at the time of diagnosis, seven patients were still children (6 to 10 years of age), three were teenagers, and four were adults. in five young girls the disease was extremely severe. delay in proper diagnosis and ...	1978	633586
sexually transmitted chlamydial eye infections are not trachoma.		1978	633592
an improved method for demonstrating the growth of chlamydiae in tissue culture.		1978	634058
[ultrastructural characteristics of chlamydia multiplication].		1978	634171
[cattle abortions of chlamydial etiology].		1978	636293
chlamydia trachomatis endocarditis.	a case of infective endocarditis due to chlamydia trachomatis immunotype f is reported. multiple negative blood cultures were a major deterrant from the initial clinical diagnosis of infective endocarditis. postmortem ultrastructural identification of chlamydia in the aortic valve vegetation led to an intensive retrospective study of retrieved serum samples utilizing microimmunofluorescent tests. likewise an unusual echocardiographic finding was discovered to be the ultrasonic visualization of a ...	1978	637003
chlamydia trachomatis as possible cause of peritonitis and perihepatitis in young women.	of 11 young women with acute peritonitis proved by laparoscopy, seven of whom also had perihepatitis, nine had serological evidence of recent infection with chlamydia trachomatis; in five of these nine patients high antibody titres to chlamydiae were found without laboratory evidence of gonococcal infection, while the other four had evidence of simultaneous gonococcal infection. c trachomatis may play an important part in peritoneal inflammation previously attributed only to gonococci.	1978	638581
chlamydial infection of the urethra in men.	chlamydia trachomatis was isolated from the uretha of 125 (52%) of 238 men with non-gonococcal urethritis (ngu). repeat isolation attempts in 155 of these patients were successful in eight men in whom results had been negative on the initial visit, but they were unsuccessful in eight men who initially had had positive cultures. we must assume that with our present isolation techniques we are missing, at any single visit, at least 9% of chlamydial infections. c. trachomatis was also found in 32 ( ...	1978	638714
the antimicrobial susceptibility of chlamydia trachomatis in cell culture.	the action of 22 antimicrobial agents against the sa2f strain of chlamydia trachomatis has been studied by the use of a simple cell culture technique. tests for bactericidal activity were undertaken with some of the agents, and latency of infection was demonstrated. the susceptibilities of 10 clinical strains of c. trachomatis and of sa2f to oxytetracyline, erythromycin, and spectinomycin in cell culture were found to be identical.	1978	638716
immunity to vaginal reinfection in female guinea pigs infected sexually with chlamydia of guinea pig inclusion conjunctivitis.	guinea pig boars were inoculated intraurethrally with the chlamydial agent of guinea pig inclusion conjunctivitis (gpic). at the heights of their urethral infections, they were caged with sows in estrus. whereas some of the sows had not been previously exposed to gpic agent, others had received an intravaginal inoculation 5 to 8 weeks earlier. those sows for which infected boars provided the first exposure were challenged by intravaginal inoculation 5 to 8 weeks later. vaginal and conjunctival s ...	1978	640729
loss of inorganic ions from host cells infected with chlamydia psittaci.	mouse fibroblasts (l cells) infected with the 6bc strain of chlamydia psittaci released potassium ion (k(+)) into the extracellular milieu in a way that depended on size of inoculum and time after infection. when the multiplicity of infection was 500 to 1,000 50% infectious units (id(50)) per l cell, loss of intracellular k(+) was first apparent 4 to 10 h after infection and was nearly complete at 6 to 20 h. magnesium ion and inorganic phosphate (p(i)) were also released. similar multiplicities ...	1978	640730
the microbial flora of the urogenital tract in women with symptoms of recurrent urinary tract infection. the non-influence of methenaminehippurate treatment on the idigenous flora.	recurrent urinary tract infections are known to occur among 5 per cent of all females. these women frequently have episodes of symptoms of lower urinary tract infection even between periods of bacteriuria. in the present study, 25 women with a history of recurrent urinary tract infections, found to lack signs of obstructive uropathy, were subjected to an extensive urological and microbiological survey. the investigation showed that (i) "pyuria" was common (9/12) but usually of urethral origin, ( ...	1978	640797
surface projections and internal structure of chlamydia psittaci.	the outermost surface of the small infectious forms of chlamydia psittaci contain geometrically arranged spikes distributed over approximately 50% of the bacterial surface. the spikes are located opposite the concave side of an electron-dense crescent-shaped chlamydial core.	1978	641015
chlamydial pneumonia in infants.		1978	643017
etiology and treatment of nongonococcal urethritis.	the significant progress of the last decade in determining the etiology of nongonococcal urethritis is reviewed, and current treatments are assessed. convincing evidence that chlamydia trachomatis is the cause of 30-50% of cases of nongonococcal urethritis has been developed by many groups from isolation data, serologic studies, urethral inoculation of monkeys, and studies of postgonococcal urethritis. other evidence that c. trachomatis is a urethral pathogen is that its selective eradication ...	1978	644417
experimentally induced feline chlamydial infection (feline pneumonitis).	cats exposed to aerosols of feline chlamydia psittaci developed a disease characterized principally by conjunctivitis. signs of conjunctivitis appeared between postexposure days (ped) 5 and 10, were often unilateral initially, and persisted for 22 to 45 days. fever followed the onset of conjunctivitis (ped 11 to 15) and persisted for 3 to 8 days. signs of mild rhinitis (occasional sneezing and mild serous nasal discharge) occurred in some cats between ped 8 and 37. neither signs of lower respira ...	1978	646190
ocular and genital infections with chlamydia.		1978	648331
immune adherence hemagglutination: alternative to complement-fixation serology.	immune adherence hemagglutination (iaha) was compared to complement fixation (cf), using standard procedures, for serological testing of human sera with a number of commercially available antigens. the antigens included herpes simplex, measles, cytomegalo-, and influenza (type b) viruses, as well as mycoplasma pneumoniae and chlamydia psittaci (chlamydia group). the iaha test was found to be as specific as the cf test, but 4 to 20 times as sensitive with all antigens tested. antigen titers were ...	1978	649762
infection of the uterine cervix with chlamydia trachomatis.	for identification of those variables in the history and in the clinical and routine laboratory examination that are most likely to indicate infection of the uterine cervix with chlamydia trachomatis, 284 women attending a venereal disease clinic were studied, were studied, of whom 58 (20.4%) yielded the organism from the cervix. women with chlamydial cervical infection showed no distinctive symptoms. although associations were found between the presence of c. trachomatis and cervical discontinu ...	1978	649988
incidence and treatment of chlamydia trachomatis genital infection in belfast.		1978	659090
more than meets the eye.		1978	660834
non-specific (non-gonococcal) urethritis.	a report is made of a small study of ureaplasmas and chlamydias in 32 cases of non-specific urethritis. erythromycin was used as a therapeutic agent and found to be reasonably effective.	1978	661709
chlamydia pneumonitis.		1978	661852
[new "chlamydia" isolation methods applied to the current medical practice and epidemiology (author's transl)].	from 935 men attending a consultation for veneral diseases and 117 women suffering from vaginal discharge, 1 052 genito urinary tract specimens were inoculated on monolayers of mccoy cells which were irradiated or treated with either cytochalasin b or 5-iodo-2-deoxyuridine. the value of these technics was estimated in routine diagnostic procedures according to the number of positive cultures, regardless of the number of inclusions per culture and also by comparison of the number of inclusions se ...	1978	666217
contrast of glycogenesis and protein synthesis in monkey kidney cells and hela cells infected with chlamydia trachomatis lymphogranuloma venereum.	glycogen metabolism of monkey kidney (llc-mk-2) cells and hela 229 cells infected with a chlamydia trachomatis lymphogranuloma venereum 440 l (lgv) was studied. the growth cycle of lgv in both host cells was similar; however, a greater number of infectious organism developed intracellularly and were released into the medium during lgv infection of hela 229 cells than mk-2 cells. a rapid infection accompanied by a high rate of glycogen synthesis and a short period of accumulation was found in gel ...	1978	669815
[chlamydia peritonitis: a disease of young females].	serological evidence of recent infection with chlamydia trachomatis was found in 9 of 11 young women with acute peritonitis or perihepatitis proved by laparoscopy. high antibody titres to chlamydiae without laboratory evidence of gonococcal infection were present in 5 of these 9 patients, while the other 4 had evidence of simultaneous gonococcal infection. c. trachomatis may play an important part in peritoneal inflammation previously attributed only to gonococci.	1978	675196
the isolation of a chlamydia psittaci-like agent from a free-living african buffalo (syncerus caffer).		1978	676013
chlamydia trachomatis in non-specific urethritis.	chlamydia trachomatis was isolated from 58.5% of 159 patients with non-specific urethritis (nsu) using irradiated mccoy cell cultures. patients with persistent chlamydia-positive nsu remained chlamydia-positive each time they were examined before treatment and patients with chlamydia-negative nsu remained chlamydia-negative during the course of the illness. neither the duration of symptoms of urethritis nor a history of previous urethritis affected the chlamydial isolation rate significantly. of ...	1978	678958
mechanisms of infertility in genital tract infections due to chlamydia psittaci transmitted through contaminated semen.	ten heifers inseminated with semen artificially contaminated with chlamydia psittaci were not pregnant 40 days later, whereas five of 10 control heifers inseminated with the same semen mixed with control diluent became pregnant. normal embryos were recovered two and one-half or three days after insemination of another group of animals with semen containing c. psittaci, a finding indicating that fertilization failure was not responsible for the infertility. uterine biopsy samples taken from two h ...	1978	681792
[transient hypercalcemia associated with reiter's syndrome in patients treated by chronic dialysis].		1978	682235
antichlamydial antibody in tears and sera, and serotypes of chlamydia trachomatis isolated from schoolchildren in southern tunisia.	a predominance of tric serotype a has been isolated from schoolchildren in a population in southern tunisia with severe hyperendemic trachoma. the serotyping results correspond precisely with the serological findings in patients' tears and sera. geometric mean titres of serum or tear antibody in defined populations or areas can thus give a useful indication of the prevalent serotypes. collection of tear fluids on sponges is a more practical method than collection by filter paper strips and gives ...	1978	687547
[chlamydia trachomatis in gynecologic outpatients].		1978	688932
isolation techniques of chlamydia trachomatis from patients with nonspecific urethritis.		1978	689228
chlamydial pneumonitis.		1978	690759
genital chlamydial infection.		1978	698717
[infectious urethritis].		1978	703671
[human chlamydia psittaci infection].		1978	705936
in vitro susceptibility of 30 strains of chlamydia trachomatis to rosamicin.	a total of 13 of 30 clinical isolates of chlamydia trachomatis were susceptible in vitro to 0.01 mug of rosamicin per ml. only two of these strains were susceptible to tetracycline or erythromycin at this level. the results suggest that rosamicin may be useful for the treatment of chlamydial urethritis.	1978	708027
isolation of chlamydia psittaci from a patient with interstitial keratitis and uveitis associated with otological and cardiovascular lesions.	a case history of a 15-year-old schoolgirl with fluctuating bilateral uveitis, bilateral stromal keratitis with vascularisation, and bilateral deafness associated with tinnitus and balance disturbance is described. three years from the onset of her clinical signs she died of a sudden cardiac arrest caused by endocarditis associated with valvular and arterial lesions. chlamydia psittaci was isolated from her conjunctiva. in her blood type-specific antichlamydial antibody at a level of 1/64 agains ...	1978	708673
urethral syndrome associated with chlamydial infection of the urethra and cervix.		1978	709069
neonatal chlamydia conjunctivitis.		1978	709165
role of chlamydia trachomatis in non-acute prostatitis.	the possible role of chlamydia trachomatis in non-acute prostatitis was investigated by cultural and serological techniques in a study of 53 adult males. c. trachomatis was isolated from the urethra of only one of the 53 patients and from none of the 28 specimens of prostatic fluid from the same patients. by means of a modified microimmunofluorescent test, serum chlamydial igg antibodies at a titre of 1/64 or greater, or igm antibodies at a titre of 1/8 or greater, or both were detected in six o ...	1978	709348
effect of cortisol on the growth of chlamydia trachomatis in mccoy cells.	the number of intracytoplasmic inclusions of chlamydia trachomatis produced in mccoy cell monolayer cultures infected with a constant inoculum of a recently isolated genital strain was compared in cultures of untreated replicating cells and in monolayers which had been incubated in the presence of cortisol at initial extracellular concentrations between 0.0001 and 100 microgram/ml. the effect of adding cortisol was dependent on its concentration, on the time of addition to the tissue culture med ...	1978	711342
prediction of efficacy of antimicrobial agents in treatment of infections due to chlamydia trachomatis.	although chlamydia trachomatis is readily eradicated by systemic therapy in patients with acute urethritis, systemic therapy is less satisfactory in treatment of chronic trachoma. the activities of antimicrobial agents against c. trachomatis in cell cultures when the antimicrobial agents are added 1 hr after the c. trachomatis (minimal inhibitory concentration [mic]) predicts efficacy of the drugs in the treatment of urethritis but does not necessarily predict efficacy in the treatment of chroni ...	1978	712119
chlamydia psittaci infection in danish cattle.	intestinal tract infection by chlamydia psittaci was demonstrated in one cattle herd by isolation from faecal specimens, using embryonated eggs. such infections were observed in all animals younger than 12 months, in 60% of the heifers and in none of the adult cows. the presence of infection correlated (r=0.511) with the serum titre of compliment fixation antibodies against chlamydial antigen. young calves, which were spontaneously infected with chlamydia postnatally, developed ileitis and moder ...	1978	716920
nonspecific urethritis: its current status.		1978	722006
the diameters of membrane vesicles fit in geometric series.		1978	723282
[ultrasonic disintegration method study of the antigens obtained from chlamydia in cross cft].		1978	723661
examination of men with nongonococcal urethritis and their sexual partners for chlamydia trachomatis and ureaplasma urealyticum.	chlamydia trachomatis was recovered from 39 (52%) of 75 men who had nongonococcal urethritis and from 28 (37%) of their sexual partners. of the partners of men with chlamydia-positive nongonococcal urethritis, 64% excreted chlamydia, compared with 8% of the partners of men with chlamydia-negative nongonococcal urethritis. in contrast, an apparently sexual mode of transmission was not observed with ureaplasma urealyticum. rates of recovery of u. urealyticum from men with nongonococcal urethritis ...	1978	725708
[isolation of chlamydia in keratoconjunctivitis].	two isolates, identified as chlamydia (neorickettsia) were obtained from the lacrimal secretion of calves with an acute infection on two of a total of four investigated farms with a record of infectious keratoconjunctivitis. in about 70% of the calves that survived there were complement-fixing antibodies against the neorickettsial antigen, the titers ranging from 1:8 to 1:64. calves that yielded the causative agent were investigated in terms of the antibody dynamics. in the remaining herds no sp ...	1978	726244
response of c3h/hej and c3h/hen mice and their peritoneal macrophages to the toxicity of chlamydia psittaci elementary bodies.	intravenous injection of toxic doses of chlamydia psittaci elementary bodies into endotoxin-responsive c3h/hen mice or endotoxin-nonresponsive c3h/hej mice resulted in essentially identical time intervals to death. inoculation of monolayer cultures of thioglycolate-stimulated peritoneal macrophages from the two strains of mice with 250 elementary bodies per macrophage resulted in immediate host cell toxicity, although the c3h/hej macrophages were somewhat less sensitive to elementary body toxici ...	1978	730377
use of enteric vaccines in protection against chlamydial infections of the genital tract and the eye of guinea pigs.	guinea pigs in a test group were fed living guinea pig inclusion conjunctivitis (gpic) organisms classified as chlamydia psittaci in 60% yolk-sac suspensions as enteric vaccines, while animals in a control group received uninfected yolk sac. seven test animals and 14 control animals were challenged 11 or 22 days later with 1,000 50% infectious doses of gpic organisms in either the conjunctiva or the vagina. evidence of protection from mucosal infection in both sites was noted in test animals. cl ...	1978	739153
[ocular pathology in northern africa].		1978	741115
experimental infection of the chimpanzee urethra and pharynx with chlamydia trachomatis.	an isolate of chlamydia trachomatis obtained from a man with nongonococcal urethritis was used to produce experimental urethral and pharyngeal infections in chimpanzees. after urethral inoculation of 8 x 10(1) inclusion-forming units (ifu), infections were established in three of three animals; urethral discharges developed in two. the infections persisted for five to nine weeks. larger inocular (7 x 10(2) and 1 x 10(5) ifu) produced pharyngeal infections in two animals. the third animal's phary ...	1978	741332
etiologies of postgonococcal urethritis in homosexual and heterosexual men: roles of chlamydia trachomatis and ureaplasma urealyticum.	before treatment for urethral gonorrhea, chlamydia trachomatis was isolated from 18% and ureaplasma urealyticum from 37% of 121 men. c. trachomatis was recovered from none of 18 homosexual men who had gonorrhea and from 22 of 95 heterosexual men who had gonorrhea (p less than 0.05). after treatment with a penicillin, postgonococcal urethritis occurred significantly more often in heterosexual than in homosexual men (p less than 0.002). postgonococcal urethritis developed in all men from whom c. t ...	1978	741335
treatment of chlamydia-positive and chlamydia-negative nonspecific and postgonococcal urethritis.	chlamydial and non-chlamydial nonspecific or postgonococcal urethritis in 132 men was treated with different regimens of chlortetracycline and doxycycline. chlortetracycline 250 mg four times daily for 12.5-18.5 days given to 70 men resulted in a clinical cure of urethritis in 80% of cases (56/70). there was no difference in the cure rate between chlamydia-positive (40) and chlamydia-negative (30) cases. in no instance was the treatment failure, i.e., re-appearance of urethritis, associated with ...	1978	742827
chlamydia trachomatis and pneumonia in infants: report of two cases.	in two cases of pneumonia associated with chlamydia trachomatis in infants the symptoms began in the second week of life and the illness was severest at 4 weeks of age. both infants were afebrile. one had a history of conjunctivitis. both presented with a characteristic staccato cough and tachypnea but little evidence of peripheral airway obstruction. chest roentgenograms showed interstitial and alveolar pulmonary infiltration in hyperexpanded lungs. the serum igm concentrations were markedly el ...	1978	743659
chlamydia shedding by four species of wild birds.	four wild bird species--great-tailed grackle (cassidix mexicanus), common grackle (quiscalus quiscula), brown-headed cowbird (molothrus ater), and mourning dove (zenaidura macroura)--were either inoculated intratracheally with chlamydia psittaci or exposed indirectly as uninoculated cagemates. shedding of chlamydiae was monitored by inoculating mice with suspensions of material eluted from cloacal swabs collected from all birds, usually at 3-day intervals. sporadic shedding of chlamydiae was dem ...	1978	749892
[hemolytic anemia associated with monoclonal bence-jones lambda proteinuria and positive serological reaction for infection with chlamydia microorganisms].		1978	752966
sexually transmitted diseases. the present situation in sweden.	overall in sweden, variable trends are noted in the number of cases of gonorrhea reported between 1950 and 1976. among teenagers, a marked decrease was noted between 1971 and 1974. education and information activities as well as improved treatment may in part be responsible for the decrease. changing sexual habits, e.g., decreased incidence of multiple partners, may also be responsible. the ratio of men to women with infections has decreased from 1.7:1 in 1961 to 1.1:1 in 1976. however, mos ...	1978	416873
chlamydial infections (first of three parts).		1978	340951
chlamydial infections (second of three parts).		1978	340953
chlamydial infections (third of three parts).		1978	342952
parasite-specified phagocytosis of chlamydia psittaci and chlamydia trachomatis by l and hela cells.	phagocytosis of the 6bc strain of chlamydia psittaci and the lymphogranuloma venereum 440l strain of chlamydia trachomatis by l cells and hela 229 cells occurred at rates and to extents that were 10 to 100 times greater than those observed for the phagocytosis of escherichia coli and polystyrene latex spheres. both species of chlamydia were efficiently taken up by host cells of a type they had not previously encountered. phagocytosis of chlamydiae was brought about by the interaction of parasite ...	1978	344217
isolation of chlamydiae in untreated and cytochalasin b treated mccoy cells.	a comparison was made between untreated mccoy cells and mccoy cells treated with cytochalasin b for the isolation of chlamydiae of subgroup a. chlamydiae were isolated in both cell systems from 125 specimens, whereas six agents were isolated only in untreated cultures and seven agents were isolated only in cytochalasin b treated cultures.	1978	344348
chlamydiae, rickettsiae, and their cell wall defective variants.	inapparent chlamydial and rickettsial infections are an important source of the dissemination of the parasites and may cause explosive outbreaks of severe diseases in man and animal. however, it is engimatic how these obligate intracellular microbes induce latency and why or how inapparent infections convert into active disease. currently, microbiologists believe that chlamydiae and rickettsiae are gram-negative bacteria unique in their intracellular habitat. this review presents evidence that t ...	1978	346183
[change in the microbial spectrum of urinary tract infections].		1978	346512
immediate cytotoxicity of chlamydia trachomatis for mouse peritoneal macrophages.	the toxicity of chlamydia trachomatis was studied with mouse peritoneal macrophage culture. inoculation of 30 inclusion-forming units of trachoma b/tw-5/ot organisms and 250 inclusion-forming units of lymphogranuloma venereum l2/434/bu organisms per cell caused immediated toxicity, with the killing of 40 to 90% of the macrophages within 6 h after inoculation. inhibition of phagocytosis by adsorption at 0 degrees c or by naf pretreatment of macrophages prevented the toxicity, indicating that chla ...	1978	352950
serotyping of chlamydia: antibodies to lymphogranuloma venereum strains compared by microimmunofluorescence and neutralization tests.	the microimmunofluorescence test with hyperimmune rooster sera against lymphogranuloma venereum strains gave the same serotype patterns obtained in the standard mouse serum system. results in a plaque reduction test appeared similar when only 3 prototype strains were tested, but differed when a battery of 11 strains were tested.	1978	352964
the chlamydia: molecular biology of procaryotic obligate parasites of eucaryocytes.		1978	353477
recognition and management of genital chlamydial infection.		1978	354748
genital chlamydial infections in patients attending a gynaecological outpatient clinic.	investigation for genital chlamydial infections was carried out on 160 patients of fertile age attending a gynaecological outpatient clinic. thirteen (9%) of the 144 patients with valid specimens were found to be chlamydia-positive. seven (54%) of them had antichlamydial antibodies by the complement-fixation test, and 11 (85%) antichlamydial antibodies by a single-antigen immunofluorescence test compared with 21 (16%) and 70 (53%), respectively, of the 131 chlamydia-negative patients. patients w ...	1978	354750
legionnaires' disease: antigenic peculiarities, strain differences, and antibiotic sensitivities of the agent.	paired sera from victims of legionnaires' disease showed, in many cases, significant rises in immunoglobulin g antibodies to both the causative agent (la) of legionnaires' disease and chlamydia psittaci, but concurrent rises in immunoglobulin m antibodies only against la. guinea pigs experimentally infected with la likewise responded with antibodies to both c. psittaci and la. guinea pigs infected with la also reflected significant differences in antigenic makeup and in pathogenicity among four ...	1978	355583
chlamydial infections in paediatrics.		1978	356747
rapid serological test for diagnosis of chlamydial ocular infections.	a rapid serodiagnostic test for the diagnosis of paratrachoma (tric ophthalmia neonatorum, inclusion conjunctivitis, tric punctate keratoconjunctivitis, and trachoma of sexually transmitted origin) has been developed. the technique is based on using a modified micro-immunofluorescence test for detecting antichlamydial igg and igm in the blood and igg and iga in tears. the blood samples are collected on cellulose sponges after a finger prick, and tears are collected by introducing small sponges i ...	1978	356871
[chlamydiosis in swine].		1978	358553
chlamydia trachomatis from men with non-gonococcal urethritis. simplified procedure for cultivation and isolation in replicating mccoy cell culture.	chlamydia trachromatis was cultivated on replicating mccoy cells without the addition of antimetabolites. a further technical modification was centrifugation of the specimens at room temperature at 4000 g, thus making it possible to use the method in any microbiological laboratory. c. trachomatis was isolated from 36 of 81 patients (44.4%) with non-gonococcal urethritis. this rate compares well with reported isolation rates using antireplicative agents and higher centrifugation temperatures.	1978	358749
single-antigen immunofluorescence test for chlamydial antibodies.	a simple method is presented for producing large numbers of inclusions of chlamydia trachomatis serotype l2 in cell cultures on slides for immunofluorescence antibody staining. preliminary results with a total of 1,241 human sera from different groups were consistent with findings by earlier methods: 82% of chlamydia-positive men with nongonococcal urethritis had antibodies at titers of greater than or equal to 8, with a geometric mean titer (gmt) of 44.9; 68.5% of chlamydia-negative men with no ...	1978	359585
unusual chlamydial infection in a human renal allograft recipient.		1978	361164
rapid diagnosis of chlamydial infection of the cervix.	a rapid serodiagnostic test for the presumptive diagnosis of chlamydial infection of the cervix has been developed. the method used in based on the modified micro-immunofluorescence test using pooled chlamydial antigens and the detection of different immunoglobulin classes of chlamydial antibody in sera and cervical secretions. the presence of igg chlamydial antibody at a level of 1/64, or igm antibody at a level of 1/8 or greater, or both in sera and igg or iga antibody at a level of 1/8 or mor ...	1978	367526
sensitivity of immunoperoxidase and immunofluorescence staining for detecting chlamydia in conjunctival scrapings and in cell culture.	the sensitivities of giemsa, immunofluorescence, and immunoperoxidase staining for the detection of chlamydia psittaci inclusions in conjunctival scrapings and in irradiated mccoy cell monolayers were compared. conjunctival specimens were obtained from a cat colony in which a trachoma-like disease, feline chlamydial keratoconjunctivitis, was endemic. the two immunochemical techniques were found to be of equal sensitivity and 50% to 100% more sensitive than giemsa stain. permanent preparations of ...	1978	368085
a simple method for the multiple tissue culture assay of chlamydia trachomatis.		1978	368489
[diagnosis and therapy of chronic nonspecific "prostato-urethritis"].		1978	369228
[antibodies against selected viruses and bedsonia in the body fluids of bovine abortions].		1978	208219