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Chronic Chlamydia pneumoniae Infections

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Chlamydia pneumoniae

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Chronic infections are the most important chlamydial infections. Moreover, with the rising average lifetime, the incidence and importance of chronic infections with late sequelae tend to rise. Chlamydia trachomatis infections may take tens of years for blindness to develop in trachoma; grave symptoms of lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) are seen after years of progression, and it takes years to develop complications of chronic silent pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), such as ectopic pregnancy and infertility.

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Saikku, P. (1999). Chronic Chlamydia pneumoniae Infections. In: Allegra, L., Blasi, F. (eds) Chlamydia pneumoniae. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2280-5_12

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