title: Spontaneous cure of acute bronchitis caused by Chlamydia pneumoniae in a 15-year-old boy.
abstract: Chlamydia pneumoniae was isolated from the pharyngeal swab of a 15-year-old patient with acute bronchitis. The serum IgM antibody against C.pneumoniae was elevated up to 160-fold in the acute phase and decreased to 20-fold in the convalescent phase using the microimmunofluorescence (MIF) test. IgG antibody titers in the acute phase and the convalescent phase were 40-fold and 160-fold respectively using the MIF test. The patient recovered from the bronchitis without any effective treatment, indicating spontaneous cure of the disease.
authors.affiliation: Division of Microbiology, Hiroshima Prefectural Institute for Health and Environment Science, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kanamoto
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sakano
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Usui
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D001991:Bronchitis / Q000382:microbiology*; D016993:Chlamydophila pneumoniae / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous