Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Chlamydia pneumoniae and Cardiovascular Disease

Lee Ann Campbell, Cho-Chou Kuo, and J. Thomas Grayston

Author affiliations: University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

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Ultrastructural evidence of Chlamydia pneumoniae in coronary atheroma. This transmission electron micrograph demonstrates the presence of endosomes containing C. pneumoniae pear-shaped elementary bodies within a foam cell in tissue from coronary artery atheroma. Arrows in inset point to the elementary bodies. Bar=0.5 µm. (Reprinted from Journal of Infectious Diseases (8) with permission from the publisher, University of Chicago Press).

Figure 1. Ultrastructural evidence of Chlamydia pneumoniae in coronary atheroma. This transmission electron micrograph demonstrates the presence of endosomes containing C. pneumoniae pear-shaped elementary bodies within a foam cell in tissue from coronary artery atheroma. Arrows in inset point to the elementary bodies. Bar=0.5 µm. (Reprinted from Journal of Infectious Diseases (8) with permission from the publisher, University of Chicago Press).

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