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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, July 1999, p. 2378-2380, Vol. 37, No. 7
0095-1137/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
Chlamydia pneumoniae in a Free-Ranging
Giant Barred Frog (Mixophyes iteratus) from
Australia
Lee
Berger,1
Kym
Volp,2
Sarah
Mathews,2
Rick
Speare,3 and
Peter
Timms2,*
CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory,
Geelong, Victoria,1 School of Life
Sciences, Queensland University of Technology,
Brisbane,2 and Department of Public
Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University,
Townsville,3 Queensland, Australia
Received 4 March 1999/Accepted 5 April 1999
The koala biovar of Chlamydia pneumoniae was identified
in lung tissue from a sick, free-ranging giant barred frog
(Mixophyes iteratus) by using electron microscopy, C. pneumoniae-specific fluorescent-antibody staining, cell culture,
and sequencing of the ompA, ompB and 16S rRNA
genes. This is the first report of a chlamydial strain infecting both a
homeotherm and a poikilotherm and only the fourth host (in addition to
humans, koalas, and horses) to be naturally infected with this species
of Chlamydia. The frog had severe, chronic, mononuclear
pneumonia and nonregenerative anemia and pancytopenia.
*
Corresponding author. Mailing address: School of Life
Sciences, Queensland University of Technology. GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, Australia 4001. Phone: (61) 7 386 42120. Fax: (61) 7 38641534. E-mail:
p.timms{at}qut.edu.au
Journal of Clinical Microbiology, July 1999, p. 2378-2380, Vol. 37, No. 7
0095-1137/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
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