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Chlamydial Infections

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Bacterial Infections of Humans

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There are four quite different disease patterns that result from human infection with chlamydial organisms. Infection with Chlamydia trachomatis, by far the most important as a human pathogen, may result in trachoma, a variety of other syndromes that accompany ocular or genital infection, or lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV). Chlamydia psittaci has one human disease manifestation—psittacosis.

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Alexander, E.R., Harrison, H.R. (1982). Chlamydial Infections. In: Evans, A.S., Feldman, H.A. (eds) Bacterial Infections of Humans. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1140-0_9

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