What is Chlamydia pneumoniae positive

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A relative of mine coughed recently and had a fever. Later, he went to the hospital and found Chlamydia pneumoniae positive. What's Chlamydia pneumoniae positive?

What is Chlamydia pneumoniae positive

First, Chlamydia pneumoniae infection is the third major pathogen of community-acquired pneumonia after pneumococcus and Haemophilus influenzae. The incubation period of the disease is 10-65 days. Lack of specific clinical manifestations, asymptomatic infection and mild patients are common. Chlamydia pneumoniae antibody positive mainly indicates that the patient is suffering from the disease and needs treatment.

Secondly, in view of the pathogen discovery time is not long, the pathogenesis is still unclear. After Chlamydia pneumoniae invades the human body, it mainly causes monocyte macrophage reaction. Alveolar macrophages act as the carrier of pathogen storage and transmission, resulting in persistent infection in the host body. The lack of specific clinical manifestations of the disease, so patients with pneumonia or the above clinical manifestations, such as suspected and the disease, can be confirmed by etiology or immunology.

Finally, in the experimental animal studies of non-human mammals such as mice and monkeys, it was found that most of the infected animals were asymptomatic, and most of them developed lung lesions after 2 months, mainly manifested as interstitial pneumonia, with local multinucleated cell infiltration in the early stage, and then macrophage and lymphocyte infiltration. Chlamydia pneumoniae can be isolated from lung and spleen. Generally speaking, upper respiratory tract infection will appear after getting sick, and patients will have fever, cough, headache, lack of strength, shivering, myalgia, non pleurisy chest pain, etc.

matters needing attention

Chlamydia pneumoniae positive cases should be treated in time, especially during the treatment period should also pay attention to the conditioning of life, patients do not have drinking or smoking, pay attention to the light diet and nutrition.