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Chlamydia Pneumonitis
Published in Lourdes R. Laraya-Cuasay, Walter T. Hughes, Interstitial Lung Diseases in Children, 2019
The clinical course of untreated chlamydial pneumonia has been reviewed by Beem et al.46 in 11 cases. The total duration of these symptoms ranged between 24 and 61 days with an average of 43 days. These patients continued to shed Chlamydia organisms in high concentrations throughout their clinical course.
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Published in A. Sahib El-Radhi, Paediatric Symptom and Sign Sorter, 2019
Chlamydia is the most common cause of bacterial neonatal conjunctivitis in England. Although it is often harmless, 10%–20% of infants experience chlamydial pneumonia, which is a serious disease. Therefore, infants should receive topical as well as systemic antibiotics.
Urethritis due to Chlamydia trachomatis
Published in Shiv Shanker Pareek, The Pictorial Atlas of Common Genito-Urinary Medicine, 2018
Chlamydial pneumonia: – erythromycin base 50 mg/kg/day orally, administered as 12.5 mg four times per day, for 14 days.– erythromycin ethylsuccinate 50 mg/kg/day orally for 14 days, administered as above.
Neonatal ocular prophylaxis in the United States: is it still necessary?
Published in Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy, 2023
Susannah Franco, Margaret R. Hammerschlag
C. trachomatis was the most common cause of neonatal conjunctivitis in the United States (U.S.) in the latter half of the 20th century. It was not recognized as a sexually transmitted infection (STI) until the 1970s; tetracyclines were considered the mainstay of treatment [5]. Prospective studies of vertical transmission of C. trachomatis conducted from the 1970s to 1980s found that neonatal ocular prophylaxis with silver nitrate does not prevent chlamydial ophthalmia, nasopharyngeal infection with C. trachomatis, or chlamydial pneumonia [6–10]. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended routine prenatal screening of pregnant women for C. trachomatis in 1993 [11] which has led to a dramatic decrease in neonatal chlamydial conjunctivitis in the U.S [12].