It leads to lung infections like pneumonia. It was known as the Taiwan acute respiratory agent (TWAR) from the names of the two original isolates – Taiwan (TW-183) and an acute respiratory isolate designated AR-39. Some of their properties are anti-bacterial which help in the treatment. Often those living in crowded settings get infected.This is just another mild illness that causes an upper respiratory tract infection.In severe cases, chlamydia results in infections like bronchitis and pneumonia. It was difficult for the treating physicians to keep patients on the protocol long enough to begin to see significant symptomatic improvement. They have cell walls with outer and inner membranes just like Gram-negative bacteria. Wash your hands at least for 20 seconds and use an alcohol-based sanitizer if soap is not available. They found that, of "healthy blood donors" about 20% were Chlamydia pneumoniae positive! As these unique characteristics apparently are only known by microbiologists, and little understood by treating physicians, treatment of CFS/FMS with antibiotics has yielded conflicting results. One should refrain from coming close to the infant if they are infected and avoid kissing on the lips of the infant.Chlamydia Trachomatis is also sometimes transmitted to the newborn due to exposure to infected genitals of the mother during normal vaginal birth.There is no vaccine to prevent the chlamydia pneumoniae infection. The bacteria cause illness by damaging the lining of the respiratory tract including the throat, windpipe, and lungs. Recent evidence also indicates the involvement of pro-inflammatory cytokines in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and major depression, and conditions such as visceral-type obesity, metabolic syndrome and sleep disturbances.

A syndrome is a collection of signs and symptoms (Sign= something you can measure; Symptom= patient reports) that appear to have diagnostic consistency. But in a disease where modern medicine has had no curative treatment to offer, it is clearly a causal factor worth looking into. Melatonin alone at 10(-12) M or LPS alone at 0.2 ng/ml did not activate monocytes. In this section I will present a list of the major symptoms and look at how chlamydial biology and our own bodily response to this might generate these often puzzling symptoms.Features of Chlamydia pneumoniae (Cpn) and Cpn infection:With these in mind, let's look at how these, and other factors about Cpn, might explain some of the otherwise mysterious symptoms of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia.One of the main routes by which Cpn is carried through the body is the lymphatic system via infected immune cells. pneumoniae is one cause of community-acquired pneumonia or lung infections developed outside of a hospital. These abnormalities and the failure of the adaptive systems to resolve inflammation affect the well-being of the individual, including behavioral parameters, quality of life and sleep, as well as indices of metabolic and cardiovascular health. In some cases, to avoid confusion, both names are given. The ratio of this 37 kDa protein to the normal 80 kDa protein was high in 72% of patients with CFS but only in 1% of the healthy controls and in none of the depression and fibromyalgia control patients.Detection of Chlamydophila pneumoniae in the bone marrow of two patients with unexplained chronic anaemia.Nebe CT, Rother M, Brechtel I, Costina V, Neumaier M, Zentgraf H, Bocker U, Meyer TF, Szczepek AJ.Central Laboratory, University Hospital Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany. …CONCLUSION: The bacterial transcripts in PBMNCs obtained from healthy donors were detected by the RT-PCR method. As I understand it, the grant was given to these doctors, and the determination of patients was by their own diagnostic selection.