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Chlamydia pneumoniae infection

Última revisão: 26 Sep 2025
Última atualização: 25 Oct 2022

Resumo

Definição

História e exame físico

Outros fatores diagnósticos

  • overcrowding (risk factor)
  • illness in other family members
  • cough
  • fever
  • headache
  • rales
  • wheezes on chest auscultation
  • tachypnea
  • pleuritic chest pain
  • dullness to percussion/reduced air entry/decreased tactile fremitus
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Fatores de risco

  • overcrowding
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Investigações diagnósticas

Primeiras investigações a serem solicitadas

  • chest x-ray
  • WBC count with differential
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Investigações a serem consideradas

  • C pneumoniae culture of nasopharynx, sputum, or pleural fluid
  • C pneumoniae antibody
  • Nucleic acid amplification tests for C pneumoniae
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Algoritmo de tratamento

AGUDA

adults

children

Colaboradores

Authors

Margaret R. Hammerschlag, MD

Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine

Director

Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases

SUNY Downstate Medical Center

Brooklyn

NY

Disclosures

MRH is an author of a number of references cited in this monograph.

Peer reviewers

Yuji Oba, MD, FCCP

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine

Division of Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine

School of Medicine

University of Missouri-Columbia

Columbia

MO

Disclosures

YO declares that he has no competing interests.

Sebastian Johnston, MB, BS, PhD, FRCP

Professor of Respiratory Medicine

Honorary Consultant Physician in Allergy and Respiratory Medicine

Department of Respiratory Medicine

Imperial College School of Medicine

London

UK

Disclosures

SJ has received fees for speaking, and research and consultant fees from Sanofi Pasteur, Aventis, GlaxoSmithKline, AstroZeneca, Merck, Pfizer, Centocor, and Synergen.

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Key articles

Kumar S, Hammerschlag MR. Acute respiratory infection due to Chlamydia pneumoniae: current status of diagnostic methods. Clin Infect Dis. 2007 Feb 15;44(4):568-76.Full text  Abstract

Rockey DD, Lenart J, Stephens RS. Genome sequencing and our understanding of Chlamydiae. Infect Immun. 2000 Oct;68(10):5473-9.Full text  Abstract

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