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Chandler R. Dawson, MD; Julius Schachter, PhD

JAMA. 1978;239(17):1790-1791.

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The best known human chlamydial diseases include trachoma and lymphogranuloma venereum due to Chlamydia trachomatis strains and psittacosis (or ornithosis) due to avian C psittaci strains. Some C trachomatis strains are among the most common sexually transmitted human pathogens.^1-3 In men, this organism is the major identifiable cause of nongonococcal urethritis and has been associated with epididimytis; in women, it may cause cervicitis and acute salpingitis.^4-7 In newborns, acquired C trachomatis is a common cause of neonatal conjunctivitis and can produce pneumonia.^8,9

The association of chlamydiae with certain eye diseases (trachoma and adult and neonatal inclusion conjunctivitis) was recognized more than 60 years ago. Thus, as early as 1910, most of the epidemiology of C trachomatis infections involving the eye had been elucidated by ophthalmologists who recognized a pattern of eye-to-eye transmission with endemic trachoma and of sexually transmitted infection that occasionally led to the eye diseases . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Francis I. Proctor Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology George Williams Hooper Foundation University of California San Francisco

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