Infection with Chlamydia pneumoniae as a cause of coronary heart disease: the hypothesis is still untested

Pathog Dis. 2015 Feb;73(1):1-9. doi: 10.1093/femspd/ftu015. Epub 2014 Dec 4.

¹ Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Box 357236, Seattle, WA 98195-7326, USA grayston@uw.edu.
² Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee, Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA.
³ Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Box 357236, Seattle, WA 98195-7326, USA.
⁴ Department of Laboratory Medicine, UCSF, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
⁵ Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
⁶ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA.

Abstract

Review of the possible role of Chlamydia pneumoniae infection in the pathogenesis of heart disease.

Keywords: antibiotic; clinical trials; treatment.