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Infecção por Chlamydia pneumoniae

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Last reviewed: 14 Sep 2025
Last updated: 25 Oct 2022

Summary

Definição

História e exame físico

Principais fatores diagnósticos

  • presença de fatores de risco
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Outros fatores diagnósticos

  • doença em outros membros da família
  • tosse
  • febre
  • cefaleia
  • estertores
  • sibilos à ausculta torácica
  • taquipneia
  • dor torácica pleurítica
  • macicez à percussão/entrada de ar reduzida/frêmito tátil diminuído
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Fatores de risco

  • superlotação
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Investigações diagnósticas

Primeiras investigações a serem solicitadas

  • radiografia torácica
  • contagem diferencial de leucócitos
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Investigações a serem consideradas

  • cultura de C pneumoniae da nasofaringe, do escarro ou do líquido pleural
  • anticorpo contra C pneumoniae
  • Testes de amplificação de ácido nucleico para C pneumoniae
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Algoritmo de tratamento

AGUDA

adultos

crianças

Colaboradores

Autores

Margaret R. Hammerschlag, MD

Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine

Director

Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases

SUNY Downstate Medical Center

Brooklyn

NY

Declarações

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

Revisores

Yuji Oba, MD, FCCP

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine

Division of Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine

School of Medicine

University of Missouri-Columbia

Columbia

MO

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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

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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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Основные статьи

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.Полный текст  Аннотация

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

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