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

Evangelos Balis | Zendy; Anastasios Boufas | Zendy; I. Iliopoulos | Zendy; N.J. Legakis | Zendy; Loukia Zerva | Zendy

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

Author(s) -

Evangelos Balis,

Anastasios Boufas,

I. Iliopoulos,

N.J. Legakis,

Loukia Zerva

Publication year - 2003

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1086/375063

Subject(s) - medicine , chlamydia , pneumonia , community acquired pneumonia , chlamydophila pneumoniae , atypical pneumonia , respiratory disease , respiratory failure , intensive care medicine , respiratory system , immunology , chlamydiaceae , lung

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.

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