Progress of Chlamydia trachomatis in children with respiratory tract infections / 国际儿科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Chlamydia trachomatis is one of the atypical pathogens, also a strict intracellular parasite with unique developmental cycle of prokaryotic microorganisms, resulting in infantile respiratory infections and conjunctivitis.Chlamydia trachomatis is associated with respiratory diseases such as chronic cough and bronchial asthma in children.Children infected with Chlamydia trachomatis generally have a good prognosis after treatment.At present, important progress has been made in the development of Chlamydia trachomatis vaccine.This article reviews the progress in etiology, epidemiology, clinical features, laboratory inspection, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of Chlamydia trachomatis, providing a new direction for clinical recognition and effective treatment of Chlamydia trachomatis infection.