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Community-Acquired
Investigators at Tampere University have published new data on community-acquired
April 10th, 2008
According to a study from Tampere, Finland, "Simkania negevensis, a recently found Chlamydia-like organism, has been associated with bronchiolitis and pneumonia in children. S. negevensis findings have been common also in healthy, non-symptomatic subjects. Antibodies to S. negevensis were measured by microimmunofluorescence in 174 frozen paired sera obtained from children with community acquired pneumonia in a population-based study." "There was evidence of S. negevensis infection in 18 (10%) cases. All diagnoses were based on the presence of specific IgM antibodies," wrote T. Heiskanenkosma and colleagues, Tampere University. The researchers...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-04-10)
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