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Identificaiton of chlamydia penumoniae DNA in caroitd plaques
F Chierichetti1, E Arbustini, V Arici
1Vascular Surgery Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Pavia, Italy.
Angiology
|December 7, 2000
Abstract:
Chlamydia pneumoniae (CP) is a bacterium that in recent years has been investigated as an etiologic agent for atherosclerosis. It is a ubiquitous microorganism that has been isolated in various regions of the vascular system and its prevalence is about 10% in the patient population. This study involved a group of 43 patients (27 men, 16 women, mean age 68 years) who underwent carotid endarterectomy. About 9.3% of the patients yielded plaques that tested positive for the DNA genome of Chlamydia pneumoniae.