| low prevalence of chlamydia psittaci in ocular adnexal lymphomas from cuban patients. | most ocular adnexal lymphomas (oal) are extranodal marginal zone b-cell lymphomas (emzl) of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (malt)-type. chronic antigen stimulation has been suggested to have a pathogenetic role in emzl and chlamydia psittaci chronic infection has been recently associated with the development of oal in a series of patients from italy. to assess this association, an evaluation of the presence of c. psittaci was made in a different oal population. dna samples were obtained from ... | 2007 | 17325853 |