Chlamydia Infections by Zinserling, Vsevolod; Poznyak, Aleksey; Sidorchuk, Sergei; Wassilew, Katharina;

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Chlamydiosis are common and hazardous diseases, yet their clinical and morphological aspects are rarely described in the literature. Visceral and brain lesions remain virtually unknown.

This book presents the results of long-term studies conducted by the authors and their collaborators, including pathologists, infectologists, neurologists, ophthalmologists, and urologists. It compares clinical (adults, infants, placentas) and experimental materials with modern literary data. Many aspects of this problem have never been addressed in world literature. The text includes well-illustrated clinical, laboratory, and morphological issues of lesions across all locations, with examples from our own practice. It presents modern views on the taxonomy, properties, and diagnostics of Chlamydia. The possible role of the pathogen in the development of non-infectious lesions is also discussed, and directions for further studies is outlined.

This book is valuable for specialists and students in general medicine, infectious diseases, urology, obstetrics and gynecology, neurology, pediatrics, neonatology, ophthalmology, pathology, and legal medicine.

Table of Contents:

Introduction.- Chapter 1. Taxonomy of Chlamydia.- 1.1. Taxonomy of Chlamydiales.- 1.2. Brief characteristics of the Chlamydiaceae family.- Chapter 2. Pathogenesis of Chlamydiosis.- 2.1 Structural and functional characteristics, virulence factors of chlamydia spp.- 2.2. Interaction of chlamydia with host cells.- 2.3 Functional state of the immune system in patients with various forms of chronic urogenital chlamydial infection.- 2.4 Results of correlation analysis of immunological parameters in patients with localized and widespread forms of urogenital chlamydiosis.- Chapter 3. Epidemiology of chlamydial infections.- 3.1. Infections due to Chlamydia trachomatis.- 3.2. Infections caused by Chlamydia pneumonia.- 3.3 Infections by Chlamydia psittaci.- 3.4. Diseases caused by Chlamydia felis, Chlamydia abortus and Chlamydia caviae.- Chapter 4. Laboratory, instrumental and morphological diagnostics of Chlamydial infections.- 4.1 Modern aspects of diagnostics of diseases caused by C. trachomatis.- 4.2 Indications for testing for urogenital chlamydia.- 4.3 Methodological aspects of laboratory diagnostics of chlamydia.- 4.4 Diagnostic value of the results obtained by various methods of diagnosing chlamydial infection.- 4.5 Molecular ¬biological methods for diagnostics of C.trachomatis.- 4.6 Cultural method.- 4.7 Rapid tests in the diagnosis of sexually transmitted infections.- 4.8 Serological tests (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, indirect immunofluorescence).- 4.9 Determination of serotypes and molecular ¬biological characteristics of C. trachomatis.- 4.10 Diagnostics of urogenital chlamydia associated with trichomonas invasion.- 4.11 Diagnosis of widespread forms of chlamydial infection.- 4.12 Diagnosis of persistent forms of chlamydial infection.- 4.13. Laboratory and instrumental diagnostics of pneumochlamydiosis.- 4.14 Laboratory and instrumental diagnostics of ornithosis.- 4.15. Morphological methods for diagnosing chlamydiosis.- Chapter 5. Clinical and morphological characteristics of Chlamydial infections in humans.- 5.1. Urogenital chlamydiosis.- 5.2 Chlamydial lesions of the visual organ (Boyko E.V., Poznyak A.L., Suetov A.A.).- 5.3. Chlamydial lesions of the nervous system (with the participation of Vainshenker Yu.I., Mudritsky V.M.).- 5.4 PNEUMOCHLAMYDIOSIS.- 5.5 Arthropathy associated with chlamydial infection.- 5.6. Periodontitis (Together with A.F. Eliseeva).- 5.7 Other organ lesions.- Chapter 6. Perinatal chlamydiosis.- 6.1 Lessons of the afterbirth in chlamydiosis.- 6.2 Intrauterine chlamydiosis.- 6.3 Remote consequences of intrauterine chlamydiosis (in collaboration with YI Vainshenker).- Chapter 7. Problems of mixed chlamydial infections.- 7.1 Chlamydiosis and influenza.- 7.2 Chlamydiosis and Covid.- 7.3 Combined brain lesions in severe non-infectious lesions (jointly with Yu.I. Vainshenker).- 7.4. Chlamydiosis and other urogenital infections.- Chapter 8. Chlamydia and non-infectious diseases.- 8.1 Chlamydia Pneumonia and atherosclerosis (jointly with Yu.I. Vainshenker).- 8.2 Role of Chlamydia pneumoniae in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis.- 8.3. Chlamydia and neurodegenerative diseases.- 8.4 Brain lesions in HIV infected patients associated with C. pneumoniae (in collaboration with Y.I. Vainshenker.- 8.5 Different neurological pathology associated with chlamydia (in collaboration with Y.I. Vainshenker).- 8.6 Other diseases probably associated with chlamydiosis.- Chapter 9. Chlamydiosis in animals.- 9.1. Chlamydiosis in cattle.- 9.2. Chlamydiosis in sheep.- 9.3. Chlamydiosis in pigs.- 9.4 Conclusion.- Chapter 10. Experimental chlamydiosis.- 10.1 Review of existing models of chlamydial infections.- 10.2 Review of existing experimental models of chlamydial infection of the nervous system.- 10.2 Ultrastructural changes in experimental chlamydial meningoencephalitis (L.S. Onischenko, partly in collaboration with M.M. Odinak, M.M. Mikhailenko, I.V. Nuralova).- Conclusion.