New chlamydia study findings reported from H.L. Chen and co-authors

According to recent research from Hengyang, People's Republic of China, "The Chlamydia pneumoniae genome-ncoded open reading frames Cpn0146, Cpn0147, and Cpn0308 were expressed as recombinant proteins for detecting C. pneumoniae-specific antibodies in samples from three groups of individuals including 183 with C. pneumoniae-associated respiratory infection (group 1), 60 healthy blood donors (group 11), and 32 with no known respiratory infection (group 111). The recombinant Cpn0146 was recognized by 71 (38.8% positive recognition rate), 15 (25%) and 1 (3.1%), Cpn0147 by 75 (40.9%), 14 (23.3%), and 2 (6.3%), and Cpn0308 by 82 (44.8%), 16 (26.7%), and 0 (0%) samples from groups I, II, and...

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