Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia with Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure Due to Primary Infection with Chlamydia pneumoniae in a Previously Healthy Adult

Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia with Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure Due to Primary Infection with Chlamydia pneumoniae in a Previously Healthy Adult

Community-acquired pneumonia due to Chlamydia pneumoniae is associated with a benign clinical course. Severe, life-threatening pneumonia is rare and occurs only in immunocompromised hosts. We report a case of severe pneumonia complicated by acute hypoxemic respiratory failure due to primary infectio...

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Veröffentlicht in:Clinical infectious diseases 2003-06, Vol.36 (12), p.e155-e157
Hauptverfasser: Balis, Evangelos, Boufas, Anastasios, Iliopoulos, Irineos, Legakis, Nicholaos J., Zerva, Loukia
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Sprache:eng
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Adult
Chlamydia Infections - complications
Chlamydophila pneumoniae
Community-Acquired Infections - complications
Community-Acquired Infections - microbiology
Female
Humans
Pneumonia, Bacterial - complications
Pneumonia, Bacterial - microbiology
Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Adult - complications
Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Adult - microbiology
Respiratory Insufficiency - complications
Respiratory Insufficiency - microbiology
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Zusammenfassung:Community-acquired pneumonia due to Chlamydia pneumoniae is associated with a benign clinical course. Severe, life-threatening pneumonia is rare and occurs only in immunocompromised hosts. We report a case of severe pneumonia complicated by acute hypoxemic respiratory failure due to primary infection with C. pneumoniae in a previously healthy 46-year-old woman.
ISSN:1058-4838
1537-6591
DOI:10.1086/375063