BUDAPEST • HUNGARY • SEPTEMBER 1-4, 2004
FIFTH MEETING OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR
CHLAMYDIA
RESEARCH
EDITOR:
JUDITH DEÁK
UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED
SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION
ROCHE, Pleasanton, CA, USA
Gen-Probe Incorporated, San Diego, CA, USA Focus technologies, Cypress, CA, USA
DIAGON Kft, Budapest, Hungary
BioMerieux Hungarian Representative Office, Budapest, Hungary Becton Dickinson Hungary Kft, Budapest, Hungary
Hungarian Society for Microbiology, Budapest, Hungary Hungarian Society for STD, Budapest, Hungary
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Chair: J. Deák L. Emődy L. Gergely A. Horváth A. Lázár
K. Márialigeti J. Minárovits T. Nyári I. Sziller G. Terhes V. Várkonyi
EUROPEAN SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE (REVIEWERS)
Christiansen G. (DK) Deák J. (H) Márdh P-A. (S)
Nagy E. (H) Orfila J. (F) Ridgway G. (UK)
Saikku P. (FIN)
Stary A. (A)
Ward M. (UK)
CONTENTS
PREFACE 1 BIOLOGY 3 DIAGNOSTICS 59
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES 103
IMMUNOLOGY 125 CLINICAL DISEASES 181
EPIDEMIOLOGY 247 SURVEILLANCE 273 CHLAMYDIA OF VETERINARY INTEREST 283
TRACHOMA 345 ANIMAL MODELS 361
TREATMENT 375
PREVENTION 387
LATE ABSTRACTS 399
AUTHOR'S INDEX 403
BIOLOGY
SUBVERSION OF THE EUKARYOTIC HOST CELL BY SECRETED CHLAMYDIAL EFFECTOR 5 PROTEINS
Ted Hacksteadt Hamilton, USA
THE GENERATION TIME OF CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS 9 I. Miyairi, O.S. Mahdi, S.P. Ouellette, R. Belland, G.I. Byrne
Memphis, USA
A TYPE THREE SECRETION/CONTACT-DEPENDENT MODEL OF CHLAMYDIAL 10 INTRACELLULAR DEVELOPMENT
D.P. Wilson, P. Timms, D.L.S. McElwain and PM. Bavoil Los Angeles, USA; Brisbane, Australia; Baltimore, USA
DECIPHERING CHLAMYDIAL GENE REGULATION BY IN SILICO PREDICTION OF 11 PROMOTER SEQUENCES
Peter Timms, Brian Grech and Sarah A. Mathews Brisbane, Australia
THE NS-GLUTAMINE S-ADENOSYL-L-METHIONINE DEPENDENT METHYL-TRANSFERASE 12 PRMC/HEMK IN CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS METHYLATES CLASS 1 RELEASE FACTORS
Yvonne Pannekoek, Valerie Heurgue-Hamard, Ankie A.J. Langerak, Dave Speijer, Richard Buckingham and Arie van der Ende
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Paris, France
ANALYSIS OF CHLAMYDIA CAVIAE ENTRY SITES AND INVOLVEMENT OF CDC42 AND RAC 13 ACTIVITY
Benjamin Wyplosz, Agathe Subtil, Maria Eugenia Balahd and Alice Dautry-Varsat Paris, France
INFECTIVITY OF CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE AND CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS IS 14 ABOLISHED BY N-GLYCANASE TREATMENT
Cho-chou Kuo, Amy Lee and Lee Ann Campbell Seattle, USA
POLY (ADP-RIBOSE) POLYMERASE-1 PLAYS A ROLE ON CHLAMYDIAL LIFE CYCLE 15 Salinas, J, A.J. Buendia, N. Ortega, Y. Monreal, M.C. Gallego, J. Sanchez, P. Ramirez,
P. Parrilla, M.R. Caro, P. Aparicio and J. Yelamos Murcia, Spain
HIDE-AND-SEEK: HOST-CELL RESPONSES IN MODELS OF PERSISTENT CHLAMYDA 16 PNEUMONIAE INFECTION
Jan Peters, Simone Heß, Katja Endlich, Jessica Thalmann, Gerda Bartling, Andreas Klos Hannover, Germany
CHLAMYDIAPHAGE (CHP2) RECEPTOR PROTEINS 17 J.S. Everson, P.R. Lambden and I.N. Clarke
Southampton, UK
EXPRESSION OF NON-STRUCTURAL PROTEINS DURING CHP2 REPLICATION 18 S.A. Garner, J.S. Everson, P.R. Lambden and I.N. Clarke
Southampton, UK
CANNOT DO WITHOUT - CD71 (TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR) IS NECESSARY TO COMPLETE 19 THE CYCLE OF DEVELOPMENT BY CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS L2
Dagmar Heuer, Volker Brinkmann, Agnes J. Szczepek, Thomas F. Meyer Berlin, Germany
SELECTIVE COX INHIBITORS INHIBIT THE GROWTH OF CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE IN 20 HOST CELLS
Ying Yan, Eeva-Liisa Heikkinen, Maija Leinonen, Sylvi Silvennoinen-Kassinen, Pekka Saikku Oulu, Finland
ENVIRONMENTAL CHLAMYDIAE- DIVERSITY, MEDICAL RELEVANCE, AND GENOMICS 21 Matthias Horn
Vienna, Austria
BIOLOGY OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHLAMYDIAE REVEALED BY COMPARATIVE GENOME 25 ANALYSIS
Astrid Collingro, Thomas Rattei, Stephan Schmitz-Esser, Dmitrij Frishman, Hans-Werner Mewes, Michael Wagner and Matthias Horn
Vienna, Austria; Freising, Germany
CHARACTERIZATION OF THE CELL ENVELOPE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL CHLAMYDIA 26 UWE25
Eva Heinz, Stephan Schmitz-Esser, Astrid Collingro, Michael Wagner and Matthias Horn Vienna, Austria
CHARACTERIZATION OF NUCLEOTIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL 27 CHLAMYDIA UWE25
Stephan Schmitz-Esser, Ilka Haferkamp, Nicole Linka, Astrid Collingro, Claude Urbany, Michael Wagner, H. Ekkehard Neuhaus and Matthias Horn
Vienna, Austria, Kaiserslautern, Germany
INTERACTION OF CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS WITH THE HOST CELL TRAFFICKING 28 PATHWAYS-STUDIES WITH USE OF RNA INTERFERENCE (SIRNA-APPROACH)
Anette Rejman Lipinski, Dagmar Heuer, Thomas F. Meyer, Agnes J. Szczepek Berlin, Germany
CHLAMYDIAL INTERACTION WITH THE HOST AUTOPHAGIC PATHWAY 29 Hesham M. Al-Younes, Volker Brinkmann and Thomas F. Meyer
Berlin, Germany
EUO: A POTENTIAL MARKER FOR PERSISTENT C. TRACHOMATIS AND C. PNEUMONIAE 30 INFECTIONS
S.P. Ouellette, A.L. Douglas, G.I. Byrne and T.P. Hatch Memphis, USA
THE PRESENCE OF SIGMA FACTORS AND SIGMA REGULATORS DURING THE 31 DEVELOPMENTAL CYCLE OF CLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS 12
T.P. Hatch and A.L. Douglas Memphis, USA
FUNCTIONAL IDENTIFICATION OF o^-REGULATED GENES IN CHLAMYDIA 32 Yu, Hilda H.Y., Lee, Sean, Kibler, Dennis and Tan, Ming
Irvine, USA
THE INTERACTION OF ANTI-SIGMA RSBW WITH SIG28 AND ANTI-ANTI-SIGMAS RSBV1 33 AND RSBV2
A.L. Douglas and T.P. Hatch Memphis, USA
INTERFERON GAMMA PRODUCTION BY HUMAN NATURAL KILLER CELLS IN RESPONSE 34 TO CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS INFECTION
Natasha Telyatnikova, Malgosia K. Matyszak, Jane C. Goodall and J.S. Hill Gaston Cambridge, UK
CHLAMYDIAL HSP60 AUTO-REGULATES ITS OWN EXPRESSION THROUGH INTERACTIONS 35 WITH THE HRCA REPRESSOR PROTEIN
Adam Wilson and Ming Tan Irvine, USA
EFFECT OF PLASMID CURING AGENTS ON CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS 36 M.A. Pickett, J.S. Ever son, P.J. Pead, N.S. Thomas and I.N. Clarke
Southampton, UK
LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS OF AMINO ACIDS ON 37 CHLAMYDIA INFECTION IN VITRO
Joscha Gussmann, Hesham M. Al-Younes and Thomas F. Meyer Berlin, Germany
THE EFFECTS OF NITRIC OXIDE ON CHLAMYDIAE INFECTION IN SMOOTH MUSCLE 38 CELLS
Tsun-Mei Lin, Yi-Ling Chen, Hock-Liew Eng Tainan, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China
CHLAMYDIA PROTEOMICS 39 Gunna Christiansen, Svend Birkelund and Brian B.S. Vandahl
Aarhus, Denmark
PROTEOMIC ANALYSIS OF PERSISTENT CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE IN HEP2 CELLS 46 INDUCED BY INTERFERON GAMMA AND OTHER CYTOKINES
Sanghamitra Mukhopadhyay, Erin D. Sullivan, Alejandra P. Clark, Sarah A. Mathews, David Good, Peter Timms, Richard D. Miller and James T. Summersgill
Louisville, USA, Brisbane, Australia
PROTEOMIC COMPARISON OF CHLAMYDOPHILA ABORTUS PROTEINS GROWN IN 47 NORMAL AND IRON-RESTRICTED MCCOY CELLS
Konstantina S. Kyriakopoulou and Evangelia Vretou Athens, Greece
TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION IN CHLAMYDIA 48 Peter Timms and Sarah A. Mathews
Brisbane, Australia
CDNA ARRAY ANALYSIS OF HOST CELL TRANSCRIPTIONAL RESPONSES IN ACUTE AND 54 PERSISTENT C. PNEUMONIAE INFECTION
Mannonen L., Haveri A., Nikula T., Vuola J.M., Lahesmaa R., Puolakkainen M.
Helsinki, Turku, Finland
INDUCTION OF EARLY MRNA SYNTHESIS AND PROTEIN-PHOSPHORYLATION IN 55 CHLAMYDIA-INFECTED HELA CELLS
D. Virok, D. Nelson, D. Crane, W. Whitmire, H.D. Caldwell Hamilton, USA
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE TRANSCRIPTOME DURING 56 ACUTE AND PERSISTENT INFECTION OF HUMAN EPITHELIAL CELLS. DEVELOPMENT OF
CHLAMYDIAL DNA MICRO ARRAY
Andre Mäurer, Joerg Angermann, Hans J. Mollenkopf, Thomas F. Meyer, Agnes J. Szczepek Berlin, Germany
CHARACTERISATION OF THE ROLE OF CHLAMYDIAL CELL SIGNALING GENES IN 57 CHLAMYDIAL PERSISTENCE
Adam Polkinghorne, Enrico Brugnera, James Summersgill, Andreas Pospischil, Lloyd Vaughan and Peter Timms
Brisbane, Australia; Zurich, Switzerland; and Louisville, USA
DIFFERENCES IN THE TRANSCRIPTION OF C. PNEUMONIAE CELL DIVISION AND 58 PEPTIDOGLYCAN-RELATED GENES IN IFNy VS. PENICILLIN-TREATMENT HIGHLIGHTS AN
EVOLVED TRANSCRIPTIONAL RESPONSE TO HOST-MEDIATED STRESS S. P. Ouellette, G. I. Byrne and R. J. Belland
Memphis, USA
DIAGNOSTICS
DIAGNOSIS OF GENITAL CHLAMYDIAL INFECTIONS IN THE ERA OF AMPLIFICATION 61 TECHNOLOGIES
Angelika Stary Vienna, Austria
COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF INCA STRUCTURE FOR THE RATIONAL DESIGN OF 64 NOVEL ANTIBODY-BASED CHLAMYDIA IMMUNODIAGNOSTICS
Larcombe, L.D., Karim, K., Woodman, A.C.
Silsoe UK
ARRAYTUBE™ MICROARRAY HYBRIDISATION ASSAY FOR IDENTIFICATION AND 65 DETECTION OF ALL CHLAMYDIAL SPECIES
Konrad Sachse, Helmut Hotzel, Peter Slickers, Thomas Ellinger and Ralf Ehricht Jena, Germany
CHARACTERISTICS OF A NEW ABBOTT M2000 AUTOMATED MAGNETIC SAMPLER 66 COMBINED WITH MULTIPLEX HOMOGENOUS REAL TIME PCR AND THE ABILITY TO
DETECT CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS IN RESIDUAL CLINICAL SWAB SAMPLES Chernesky M.A., Jang D., Marshall R., Yu J., Howell-Adams B., Ho S., Welk J., Lai-Zhang J., Brashear R., Diedrich B., Otis K. and Webb E.
Hamilton, Canada, Abbott Park, USA
USING PATIENT- & CLINICIAN-COLLECTED VAGINAL SWABS IN THE APTIMA® CT ASSAY 67 FOR CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS & APTIMA® GC ASSAY FOR NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE
Julius Schachter, Chernesky M., Willis D., Fine P., Hook E.W., Martin D.H., Fuller D., Jordan J., Janda W.
San Francisco, USA
SCREENING FOR CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS USING SELF-COLLECTED SPECIMENS: 68 PERFORMANCE, EASE OF COLLECTION AND PREFERENCE
Max A. Chernesky Hamilton, Canada
DETECTION OF CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS AND NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE INFECTIONS 69 IN MEN BY TESTING FIRST CATCH URINE IN NEW APTIMA® CT AND APTIMA GC ASSAYS
Chernesky M.A., Martin D.H., Hook E. W., Willis D., Jordan J., Wang S., Lane J., Fuller D. and Schachter J.
Hamilton, Canada, New Orleans, Birmingham, Jacksonville, Pittsburgh, San Diego, IndianapolisSan Francisco, USA
THE NEW POPULATION-BASED EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS USING 70 NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TESTS AND NON-INVASIVE SPECIMENS: OUTREACH
BEYOND THE CLINIC Charlotte A. Gaydos Baltimore, MD, USA
NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TESTS AND SCREENING FOR CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS 71 Schachter J.
San Francisco, USA
EVALUATION OF THE GEN-PROBE APTIMA COMBO 2 ASSAY FOR THE DETECTION OF 72 CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS AND NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE IN MALE AND FEMALE URINE
SAMPLES
Lowe, Peter; O'Loughlin, Peter; White, Michael Queensland, Australia
PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ROCHE COBAS TAQMAN CHLAMYDIA 73 TRACHOMATIS TEST
Mark Krevolin, Jian Qing Yang, Jim Pane, Art Sunhachawee, Nitta Lee-Lundy, David Hardy, Elizabeth Cervantes
Pleasanton, USA
EFFECT OF DNA ISOLATION AND POOLING OF URINES ON THE SENSITIVITY OF PCR 74 DETECTION OF CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS IN ASYMPTOMATIC PREGNANT WOMEN
G.I.J.G. Rours, R. Verkooyen, E.A.E. van der Zwaan, H.F.M. Willemse, R. de Groot, H.A. Verbrugh, J.M. Ossewaarde
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
DEVELOPMENT OF REAL-TIME PCR FOR CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS: QUANTIFICATION 75 OF PLASMID AND ELEMENTARY BODIES
Maithe Clerc, A. NGandjio, C. Bebear, B. de Barbeyrac Bordeaux, France
CONFIRMATION OF POSITIVE CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS AND NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE 76 SPECIMENS DETECTED BY THE GEN-PROBE APTIMA COMBO 2® ASSAY
Jeanne Moncada, David Brooks and Julius Schachter San Francisco, USA
EVALUATION OF THE RAPED BIOSTAR OIA ASSAY FOR DETECTION OF CHLAMYDIA 77 TRACHOMATIS IN ADOLESCENT WOMEN
C.I. Bandea, E.H. Koumans, M.K. Sawyer, J.R. Papp, E. Unger, J. Braxton, L.E. Markowitz and C.M. Black Atlanta, USA
INTERNET BASED CHLAMYDIA SCREENING USING VAGINAL SWABS: WHAT YOUNG 78 WOMEN SAY ABOUT HOME SAMPLING AND THE INTERNET
C.A. Gaydos, P.A. Rizzo, M. Barnes, K. Burnard, B.J. Wood, T. Hogan Baltimore, Philadelphia, USA
CHLAMYDIAL AND GONOCOCCAL CO-INFECTION AMONG MALE AND FEMALE 79 ATTENDERS AT A STD CLINIC
Azevedo J., Santo I., Gomes J.P., Borrego M.J.
Lisboa, Portugal
SCREENING FOR GENITAL CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS INFECTIONS IN MEN WITH 80 URETHRITIS IN ISTANBUL
Ali Agacfidan, Mustafa Onel, Hayati Beka, Ates Kadioglu, Taner Lama Istanbul, Turkey
LIGASE CHAIN REACTION AS A TOOL FOR THE DETECTION OF OCCULT CHLAMYDIAL 81 PROSTATIC INFECTION
I. Ostaszewska-Puchalska, B. Zdrodowska-Stefanow, R. Bielecki, M. Baltazia, M. Skawrohska, R. Kozlowski, M. Wilkowska-Trojniel
Bialystok, Poland
EVALUATION OF DIAGNOSTIC PERFORMANCE OF DIFFERENT ASSAYS FOR DETECTION 82 OF CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS IN PATIENTS WITH RECURRENT UROGENITAL INFECTION
Hala Badawi, Maisa Omar, Aisha Abu-Aitta, Mahmoud Romeih, Essam Riad and Mohamed Ali Saber Giza, Egypt
DIAGNOSIS OF LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM USING 16S RRNA-BASED 83 FLUORESCENT IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION (FISH)
Andreas Essig, Judith Rampf, Cord Sunderkötter and Sven Poppert Ulm, Germany
EIA VS SDA - ARE WE REALLY MISSING OUT? 84 Margaret Sillis, Sue Skidmore
Norwich, Telford, UK
CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS AND HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS IN PAP SMEAR RESULTS 85 Elena T. Dokic, M. Petrovska, T. Grdanovska, N. Panovski
Skopje, Macedonia
EXPANDED CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS SEROLOGY: CHSP60 IGG AND ITS ASSOCIATION 86 WITH TUBAL OCCLUSION
Clad A., Petersen E.E. and Böttcher M.
Freiburg, Hamburg, Germany
CHSP60-IGG-ELISA MEDAC: EVALUATION OF A NEW RESEARCH ASSAY FOR DETECTION 87 OF IGG ANTIBODIES TO CHLAMYDIAL HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 60
Dreesbach K., König T., Christiansen G., Pedersen A.S., Birkelund S. and Franke D.
Wedel, Germany; Aarhus, Denmark
THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES FOR DETECTION OF 88 CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS
K. Shalepo, T. Khusnutdinova, O. Misyurina, E. Shipitsyna, O. Budilovskaya, A. Savicheva St. Petersburg, Moscow, Russia
SEROLOGIC MARKERS OF CHRONIC C. TRACHOMATIS INFECTIONS IN SUBFERTILE 89 WOMEN
J.E. den Hartog, J.A. Land, F.RM. Stassen, A.G.H. Kessels, C.A. Bruggeman Maastricht, The Netherlands
IDENTIFICATION OF CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE ANTIGENS BY PHAGE DISPLAY 90 TECHNOLOGY
Markus Mueller, Sebastian Bunk, Stefan Michelfelder, Thomas Härtung, Corinna Hermann Konstanz, Germany
RAPID CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE QUANTIFICATION IN CLINICAL SAMPLES BY 91 LIGHTCYCLER REAL-TIME PCR
R. Sessa, G. Schiavoni, A. Petrucca, M. Di Pietro, S. Fallucca, C. Zagaglia, P. Cipriani, C.R. Noval, M. del Piano
Rome, Italy; Madrid, Spain
DETECTION OF CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS IN DIFFERENT SPECIMEN TYPES USING REAL- 92 TIME PCR
Meike Eickhoff, Sven Thamm, Gerd Michel Hamburg, Delkenheim, Germany
TIMELY DIAGNOSIS OF ACUTE CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE (CPN) INFECTION USING 93
"REAL-TIME" POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION (PCR) TESTING D.L. Hahn, J.D. Hester
Wisconsin, Madison, Lenexa, USA
CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE IN PBMC: REPRODUCIBILITY OF THE OMPA NESTED PCR 94 TOUCHDOWN
R. Sessa, G. Schiavoni, M. Di Pietro, A. Petrucca, S. Fallucca, P. Cipriani, C.R. Noval, M. del Piano Rome, Italy; Madrid, Spain
COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT PCR METHODS DEVELOPED FOR THE DETECTION OF 95 CHLAMYDOPHILA (CHLAMYDIA) PNEUMONIAE IN CLINICAL SPECIMENS
Adrian Mehlitz, Thomas F. Meyer and Agnes J. Szczepek Berlin, Germany
INTERFERENCE AND TOXICITY OF THROAT SPECIMENS FOR ISOLATION OF CHLAMYDIA 96 PNEUMONIAE
Tamara Reznik, Patricia M. Roblin, Stephan Kohlhoff, L.-H. Huang, Margaret R. Hammerschlag New York, USA
EVALUATION OF SELECTED RECOMBINANT CHLAMYDIAL ANTIGENS FOR 97 SEROLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS OF CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS AND CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE
INFECTION
Maile, J., Riemer, A., Kuehler, S., Simnacher, U., Soutschek, E., Straube, E., Essig, A.
Martinsried, Ulm, Jena, Germany
CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE IGG AND IGA ANTIBODIES IN MIDDLE AGED, DYSLIPIDEMIC 98 MEN MEASURED BY MICROIMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TECHNIQUE AND ENZYME
IMMUNOASSAY
Mika Paldanius, Tiina Sävykoski, Leena Tenkanen, Hanna Virkkunen, Maija Leinonen and Pekka Saikku Oulu, Helsinki, Finland
EVALUATION OF COMMERCIAL TESTS FOR SERODIAGNOSIS OF CHLAMYDOPHILA 99 PNEUMONIAE IN CLINICAL SAMPLES
Corinna Hermann, Katja Gueinzius, Albrecht Oehme, Sonja v. Aulock, Eberhard Straube and Thomas Härtung
Konstanz, Halle, Jena, Germany
SPECIFIC ENZYME IMMUNO ASSAY (EIA) FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF CHLAMYDIAL 100 LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE (LPS) FROM HUMAN SERUM
Tiirola T., Jaakkola A., Sinisalo J., Nieminen M., Jauhiainen M., Saikku P., Bloigu A. and Leinonen M.
Oulu, Helsinki, Finland
THE RESULTS OF CHLAMYDIAL SEROLOGY FROM LABORATORY POINT OF VIEW 101 Hana Kabickova, Olga Slamborova
Prague, Czech Republic
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES
ANTIBIOTIC TREATMENT OF ATHEROSCLEROTIC CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE 105 J. Thomas Grayston
Seattle, WA, USA
PREVALENCE OF CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE IN VASCULAR INFECTIONS 112 R. Sessa, M. Di Pietro, G. Schiavoni, S. Fallucca, C. Zagaglia, S. Romano,
F. Benedetti-Valentini, C.R. Noval, M. del Piano Rome, Italy; Madrid, Spain
RESULTS OF THE AZITHROMYCIN AND CORONARY EVENTS STUDY (ACES) 113 J. Thomas Grayston, Richard Kronmal, Lisa A. Jackson, J. Brent Muhlestein, J.R. Crouse, Albert F. Parisi,
Jerome D. Cohen, William Rogers, Sandra Borrowdale, Ellie Schron, Charles Knirsch and other members of the ACES study group
Seattle WA, USA
CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE INDUCES CASPASE-3 INDEPENDENT APOPTOSIS LIKE CELL 114 DEATH OF VASCULAR CELLS
Dumrese Claudia, Maurus Christine F., Gygi Daniel, Schneider Marten K.J., Walch Michael, Groscurth Peter, Ziegler Urs
Zurich, Switzerland
CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION OF SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS STIMULATES THE 115 RELEASE OF MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES AND FACTORS INHIBITING SMOOTH
MUSCLE CELL PROLIFERATION
J. Rödel, D. Prochnau, K. Prager, J. Baumert, K.-H. Schmidt, E. Straube Jena, Germany
C. PNEUMONIAE SEROLOGY IN PATIENTS WITH CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE 116 Jan Kaehler, Ralf Koester, Marion Carstensen, Sabine Dettlaff and Thomas Meinertz
Hamburg, Germany
ASSOCIATION BETWEEN THE DEVELOPMENT OF RESTENOSIS AFTER PTCA AND THE 117 CHANGES AFTER PTCA IN THE ANTIBODY TITERS TO MICROBES INCRIMINATED IN THE
PATHOMECHANISM OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS
Krisztina Heltai, Fruzsina Petrovay Zoltán Kis, Valéria Endresz, Endre Ludwig, Róbert Kiss, Eva Gonczol, István Préda, István Valyi-Nagy
Budapest, Szeged, Hungary
CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE-SPECWIC mRNA IS PRESENT IN AORTIC WALL BIOPSIES 118 OF PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM STABLE OR UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS
Marie Edvinsson, Eva Hjelm, Stefan Thelin, Göran Friman and Christina Nyström-Rosander Uppsala, Sweden
COMPARISON OF CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE-SPECIFIC DNA DETECTION METHODS BY 119 PCR AND TWO DIFFÉRENT RT-PCR METHODS
Judith Deák, Judith Tóth, F. Somogyvári, Beatrix Kele, Elisabeth Nagy, R. Sipka, B.A. Szabó Szeged, Hungary
CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE AND CORONARY ATHEROSCLEROSIS: AN ASSOCIATION 120 STUDY USING PCR ASSAY, ANTIGEN DETECTION AND SEROLOGY
Gita Satpathy, Anil Bhan, Anjana Sharma, U. Kar and S.K. Panda New Delhi, India
CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION DOES NOT INCREASE ATHEROSCLEROTIC 121 LESIONS IN THE ASCENDING AORTA OF APOE-DEFICIENT MICE
Christian Wahl, Philipp Duerr, Sonja Maier, Ulrike Simnacher, Reinhard Marre and Andreas Essig Ulm, Germany
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE SEROPOSITIVITY AND AMD, IN 122 PATIENTS WITH CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE
Annamária Nagy, Andrea Facskó, Judith Deák, 1.1. Édes, A. Berta Debrecen, Szeged, Hungary
CHLAMYDIAL LPS, CIRCULATING LPS BINDING PROTEINS AND C-REACTIVE PROTEIN IN 123 HEALTHY BLOOD DONORS.
Korhonen T., Jounio U., Tiirola T., Jauhiainen M., Silvennoinen-Kassinen S., Leinonen M. and Saikku P.
Oulu, Helsinki, Finland
IMMUNOLOGY
NEW INSIGHTS IN CHLAMYDIAL IMMUNOLOGY AND PATHOGENESIS 127 Harlan D. Caldwell, David Nelson, Dezso Virok, Heidi Wood and Grant McClarty
Hamilton, USA; Manitoba, Canada
REGULATION OF TRYPTOPHAN SYNTHASE GENE EXPRESSION BY THE TRYPTOPHAN 132 REPRESSOR IN C. TRACHOMATIS
Heidi Wood, Christine Roshick and Grant McClarty Manitoba, Canada
EVIDENCE FOR A SHIFT IN THE SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS OF CHLAMYDIA 133 TRACHOMATIS IN PERSISTENT VS. ACTIVE INFECTION
Hervé C. Gérard, Judith A. Whittum-Hudson and Alan P. Hudson Detroit, USA
GENOME WIDE IDENTIFICATION OF PROTEINS SECRETED BY A TYPE IH MECHANISM 134 DURING CHLAMYDIA INFECTION
Agathe Subtil, Cédric Delevoye, Maria Eugenia Balanâ, Laurence Tastevin, Stéphanie Perrinet, Alice Dautry-Varsat
Paris, France
INDUCTION OF PROLIFERATION BY HUMAN MONOCYTES INFECTED WITH 135 CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE - A PARACRINE EFFECT CAUSED BY THE SECRETION OF
EUKARYOTIC GROWTH FACTORS
Marion Rother, Thomas F. Meyer, Agnes J. Szczepek Berlin, Germany
CHARACTERIZATION OF THE IMMUNE STIMULATORY PRINCIPLE OF CHLAMYDOPHILA 136 PNEUMONIAE
Katja Gueinzius, Siegfried Morath, Jens Kuipers, Matthias Maass, Corinna Hermann Konstanz, Hannover, Lübeck, Germany
CELLULAR IMMUNITY TO CHLAMYDIAL INFECTIONS 137 Svend Birkelund, Brian Vandahl and Gunna Christiansen
Arhus, Denmark
GENOMICS SEARCH FOR HOST CELL GENES THAT CAN INHIBIT CHLAMYDIA GROWTH 142 IN PRIMARY EPITHELIAL CELLS
David E. Nelson, Dezso Peter Virok, Heidi Wood, Grant McClarty, Harlan D. Caldwell Hamilton, USA, Manitoba, Canada
CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE INDUCES EXPRESSION OF SUPPRESSOR OF CYTOKINE 143 SIGNALING-3 (SOCS-3) IN HUMAN LUNG EPITHELIAL CELLS
Vjera Magdalenic, Sean Wattegedera, Gwen Wathne, Sarah E.M. Howie and Gary Entrican Edinburgh, UK
DENDRITIC CELLS AND MACROPHAGES PULSED WITH C. PNEUMONIAE ELICIT DISTINCT 144 IMMUNE RESPONSES IN VITRO
Anne Tammiruusu and Jenni M. Vuola Helsinki, Finland
CLASS IB RESTRICTED CD8+ T CELL RESPONSES IN MICE INFECTED WITH CHLAMYDIA 145 PNEUMONIAE
Amy R. Tvinnereim and Benjamin Wizel Tyler, USA
RECOGNITION OF CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS BY CD8+ CYTOTOXIC T CELLS 146 Malgosia K. Matyszak and J.S. Hill Gaston
Cambridge, UK
CYTOKINE RESPONSE IN CULTURED GENITAL EPITHELIAL CELLS WITH CO-INFECTIONS 147 BY C. TRACHOMATIS AND HSV-2
Jamie L. Potter, Melissa Roberts, Mike Bivens and Morris D. Cooper Springfield, USA
CYTOKINE PROFILE AND TH-RESPONSE TO CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION IN 148 PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONOCYTIC CELLS IN PATIENTS WITH ASTHMA
Stephan Kohlhoff, Patricia Roblin, Andrei Kutlin, Sebastian Strigl, Rauno Joks, Margaret R Hammerschlag New York, USA
IL-6 PRODUCTION BY UROEPITHELIAL CELLS AFTER INFECTION WITH CHLAMYDIA 149 TRACHOMATIS
JA. Severin, H.F.M. Willemse and J.M. Ossewaarde Rotterdam, The Netherlands
CHEMOKINES PRODUCED BY HELA CELLS UPON CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMA TIS INFECTION 150 J.A. Severin, H.F.M. Willemse, L.F. de Ruiter, E.E. Nieuwenhuis and J.M. Ossewaarde
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
CYTOKINE PRODUCTION IN CHLAMYDIA INDUCED REACTIVE ARTHRITIS 151 G. M. Bondarenko
Kharkov, Ukraine
IL-10 POLYMORPHISM AND CELL MEDIATED RESPONSE TO C. TRACHOMATIS 152 H. Öhman, P. Koskela, A. Tiitinen, S. Birkelund, G. Christiansen, M. Halttunen, J. Paavonen, H.-M. Surcel
Oulu, Helsinki, Finland Aarhus, Denmark
THE CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE OMCB PROTEIN IS AN IMPORTANT ADHESIN RELEVANT 153 FOR EB ATTACHMENT TO EUKARYOTIC CELLS
Katja Mölleken, Frederik N. Wuppermann and Johannes H. Hegemann Düsseldorf, Germany
CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE-WFECTION OF HUMAN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS LEADS TO 154 ENHANCED SUSCEPTIBILITY TO NK-CELL CYTOTOXICITY: A FIRST STEP TOWARDS
ARTERIOSCLEROTIC PLAQUE FORMATION
Christine F. Maurus, Claudia Dumrese, Marten K.J. Schneider, Urs Ziegler, Peter Groscurth and Jörg D. Seebach
Zürich, Swiss
MOUNTING OF ADAPTIVE AND INNATE IMMUNITY AGAINST CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS 155 IS CXCR3-DEPENDENT
H.K. Maxion and K.A. Kelly Los Angeles, USA
EFFECT OF MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES ON THE IN VITRO INFECTIVITY OF 156 CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE
Haralambieva I., lankov I., Mladenov I., Ouzounova V., Mitov I.
Sofia, Bulgaria
EVIDENCE FOR A TYPE HI SECRETION SYSTEM IN CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI 157 T. Geens & D. Vanrompay
Ghent, Belgium
EFFECT OF PARACHLAMYDIA ACANTHAMOEBAE ON MICROBICIDAL EFFECTORS OF 158 HUMAN MACROPHAGES
Gilbert Greub, Benoit Desnues, Didier Raoult and Jean-Louis Mege Marseille, France
INTRACELLULAR TRAFFICKING OF PARACHLAMYDIA ACANTHAMOEBAE 159 Gilbert Greub, Jean-Louis Mege, Jean-Pierre Gorvel, Didier Raoult and Stéphane Méresse
Marseille, France
THE INFECTING DOSE OF CHLAMYDIA MURIDARUM MODULATES THE BALANCE 160 BETWEEN THE INNATE AND ACQUIRED IMMUNE RESPONSE AND ASCENDING INFECTION
K.A. Kelly, W. Liu, M.-H. Chang and H.K. Maxion Los Angeles, California
CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS INFECTION IN ESTROGEN-RESPONSIVE CELL LINES 161 Guseva, N.V., Dessus-Babus, S.C., Whittimore, J.D., Moore, C.G. and Wyrick P.B.
Johnson City, USA
C. TRACHOMATIS SPECIFIC IMMUNE RESPONSES AND INFERTILITY 162 H. -M. Surcel, A. Bloigu, H. Öhman, M. Halttunen, S. Birkelund, A. Tiitinen, G. Christiansen,
P. Koskela, R. Morrison, J. Paavonen
Oulu, Helsinki, Finland, Aarhus, Denmark, Bozeman, Montana, USA
THE INFLUENCE OF CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS ANTIBODIES AND HEAT-SHOCK PROTEIN 163 ANTIBODIES ON THE OUTCOME OF IN VITRO FERTILIZATION
Ploman F., Hägglund L., Osser S., Birkelund S., Christiansen G., Persson K.
Malmö, Sweden, Aarhus, Denmark
ANTIBODIES TO CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE AND HUMAN HSP60, C-REACTIVE PROTEIN, IL- 164 6 LEVELS AND INTERLEUKIN-6 GENE POLYMORPHISM IN HEALTHY, FINNISH BLOOD
DONORS
Ulla Jounio, Aini Blöigu, Taina Korhonen, Sylvi Silvennoinen-Kassinen, Maija Leinonen and Pekka Saikku Oulu, Finland
IMMUNE RESPONSES TO 6O-KILODALTON HUMAN AND CHLAMYDIAL HEAT SHOCK 165 PROTEIN AND OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN OF CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE IN PATIENTS
WITH CORONARY HEART DISEASE
R. Krausse, J. Leiendecker, G. Hermann, G. Müller, U. Ullmann Kiel, Germany
HEAT SHOCK PROTEINS (GROEL) OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL CHLAMYDIA UWE25 166 Susanne Haider, Stephan Schmitz-Esser, Astrid Collingro, Michael Wagner and Matthias Horn
Vienna, Austria
APOPTOSIS OF HUMAN SPERMATOZOA BY CO-INCUBATION WITH CHLAMYDIA 167 TRACHOMATIS LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE
A. Eley, S. Hosseinzadeh., H. Hakimi, I. Geary and A A. Pacey Sheffield, UK
CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE-INFECTED MACROPHAGES INDUCE APOPTOSIS OF ACTIVATED 168 T CELLS
R. Sessa, M. Di Pietro, S. Fallucca, C. Zagaglia, G. Schiavoni, S. Morrone, C.R. Noval, M. del Piano Rome, Italy; Madrid, Spain
INHIBITION OF TNFa AND STAUROSPORINE- INDUCED APOPTOSIS BY THE EPITHELIAL 169 CELL LINE HEP-2 DURING A PERSISTENT INFECTION WITH CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE
Nicole Paland, Wolfgang Wehrl, Thomas F. Meyer, Agnes Szczepek, Thomas Rudel Berlin, Germany
CHLAMYDIA INHIBIT HOST CELL-APOPTOSIS BY SPECIFIC DEGRADATION OF THE PRO- 170 APOPTOTIC BH3-ONLY PROTEIN BIM
Fischer, Silke F.; Vier, Juliane; Kirschnek, Susanne; Klos, Andreas; Hess, Simone; Hücker, Georg Munich, Hannover, Germany
EFFECT OF NF-KAPPA-B INHIBITION ON ULTRASTRUCTURE OF CHLAMYDIA 171 PNEUMONIAE IN CELL CULTURE
TiranB., Fuchsbichler A., Winter E., FriedlN., Landl E.M., Gruber, H.-J., März. W., TiranA.
Graz, Austria
NODl AND -2 MEDIATED NF-KB ACTIVATION BY CHLAMYDIAE 172 Stefanie Förster, Bastian Opitz, Andreas C. Hocke, Matthias Maass, Jens G. Kuipers, Norbert Suttorp and
Matthias Krüll
Berlin, Lübeck, Hannover, Germany
IMPORTANCE OF MAPKlNASES AND RHO-PROTEINS FOR C. PNEUMONIAE-MEDIATED 173 ACTIVATION OF ENDOTHELIAL CELLS
Jennifer Kramp, Bastian Opitz, Stefanie Förster, Matthias Maass, Norbert Suttorp and Matthias Krüll Berlin, Lübeck, Germany
SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION PATHWAYS ACTIVATED IN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS FOLLOWING 174 STIMULATION WITH THE 60-KDA HEAT-SHOCK PROTEIN OF CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE GROEL-1
Christian Scheiber, Frederik N. Wuppermann, Johannes H. Hegemann, Norbert Suttorp and Matthias Krüll Berlin, Düsseldorf, Germany
CHLAMYDIA MEDIATE ACTIVATION OF SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION PATHWAYS IN TARGET 175 CELLS - IMPORTANCE OF CHLAMYDIAL VIRULENCE FACTORS
Matthias Krüll, Matthias Maass, Jens G. Kuipers and Norbert Suttorp Berlin, Lübeck Hannover, Germany
TRANSCRIPTOME AND PROTEOME ANALYSIS OF CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE GENE 176 EXPRESSION MODULATED BY INTERFERON-y (IFN)
David A. Good, Sanghamitra Mukhopadhyay, Christina Theodoropoulos, Richard D. Miller, Sarah A Mathew, James T Summersgill, Peter Timms
Brisbane, Australia, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
PRODUCTION OF EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS BY HUMAN SMOOTH MUSCLE 177 CELLS AND FIBROBLASTS INFECTED WITH CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE
Jürgen Baumert, Jürgen Rödel, Katrin Prager and Eberhard Straube Jena, Germany
CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE ACTIVATES THE GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR IN HUMAN 178 LUNG EPITHELIAL CELLS
M. Gencay, M. Tamm, J.J. Rüdiger, J. Black, A. Glanville and M. Roth Sydney, Australia, Basel, Switzerland
SUSCEPTIBILITY OF HUMAN MACROPHAGES TO CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION IN 179 VITRO AND ITS ASSOCIATION TO C. PNEUMONIAE IGA AND IGG ANTIBODIES IN SERUM IN
HEALTHY BLOOD DONORS
S. Silvennoinen-Kassinen, K. Poikonen, E. Saarenpää, M. Leinonen and P. Saikku Oulu, Finland
CLINICAL DISEASES
CHLAMYDIA AND RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS; SOME RECENT OBSERVATIONS 183 Pekka Saikku
Oulu, Finland
STIMULATION OF LOX-1 EXPRESSION IN SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS FOLLOWING 188 CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE-INFECTION AND ITS DOWN-REGULATION BY FLUVASTATIN
Dirk Prochnau, Jürgen Rödel, Katrin Prager, Dana Kuersten, Eberhard Straube, Hans-Reiner Figulla Jena, Germany
IS IT POSSIBLE TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE PNEUMONIA AND 189 BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA?
Naoyuki Miyashita, Hiroshi Fukano, Koichiro Yoshida, Yoshihito Niki Kurashiki, Japan
DETECTION OF CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE AMONG ELDERLY PATIENTS WITH 190 COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA
M. Angélica Martínez, Ely Jover, Luis Fidel Avendaño, Vivian Luchsinger, Claudia Caroca, M. Angélica Santiago, Chile
IS CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE A MISSING LINK IN THE "DUTCH HYPOTHESIS" AND 191 CHRONIC NON-SPECIFIC LUNG DISEASE?
D.L. Hahn, M.B. Plane Madison, USA
CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE-SPECIFIC IGA ANTIBODIES PREDICT WORSENING ASTHMA 192 SYMPTOMS IN ADULTS
D.L. Hahn, M.B. Plane, O.S. Mahdi, G.I. Byrne Madison, WI, Memphis, TN, USA
THE JOINT EFFECT OF CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION AND MANNOSE BINDING 193 LECTIN MUTATION IN DEVELOPMENT OF BRONCHIAL ASTHMA IN CHILDHOOD
Adrienne Nagy, Gergely T. Kozma, Márton Készei, András Treszl, András Falus, Irén Budai, Csaba Szálai Budapest, Hungary
CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION IS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH 194 INITIATION OF ASTHMA, ALLERGIC RHINITIS OR ATOPIC ECZEMA IN CHILDREN
Sebastian M. Schmidt, Cornelia E. Müller, Siegfried K. W. Wiersbitzky Greifswald, Germany
CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE DNA DETECTION IN PERIPHERAL BLOOD 195 MONONUCLEAR CELLS IN COPD PATIENTS WITH SYSTEMIC GLUCOCORTICOSTEROID
TREATMENT
M.A. ZuzewiczLA.D. Barela, M. Przybylski, R. Chazan, M. Luczak Warsaw, Poland
CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE IN CHRONIC RHINOSINUSITIS 196 Marie Edvinsson, Monica Stenqvist, Eva Hjelm, Christina Nyström-Rosander
Uppsala, Sweden
FAILURE TO DETECT CHLAMYDOPHILA (CHLAMYDIA) PNEUMONIAE IN CHRONIC 197 PHARYNGITIS
Kenneth Persson, Jens Boman, Lucyna Schalén and Rolf Uddman Malmö, Umeá, Lund, Sweden
ANTIBODIES TO CHLAMYDOPHILA (CHLAMYDIA) PNEUMONIAE IN LUNG CANCER 198 PATIENTS
Persson K., Nilsson J. and Lindgär de F.
Malmö, Sweden
CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION IS ASSOCIATED WITH SUBTYPES OF NON-SMALL 199 CELL LUNG CARCINOMA
M. Gencay, M.P. Bihl, U. Egermann, M. Roth, M. Tamm Basel, Switzerland
PULMONARY CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION FOLLOWING LUNG 200 TRANSPLANTATION
M. Gencay, M. Tamm, Ch Aboyoun, M. Malouf, S. Rainer, M. Roth, A. Glanville Sydney, Australia, Basel, Switzerland
METABOLIC SYNDROME, CRP, AND C. PNEUMONIAE IN A FINNISH BIRTH COHORT 201 Pekka Saikku, Aini Bloigu, Mika Paldanius, Anneli Pouta, Anna-Liisa Hartikainen, Markku Savolainen, Liisa
Karinen, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, Maija Leinonen Oulu, Finland
A POSSIBLE ASSOCIATION OF CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE WITH JUVENILE 202 ARTHRITIS
Martyinova V.R., Kolkova N.I., Zigangirova N.A. ,Golobova E.S., Chistyakova E.G., Valieva S.I.
Moscow, Russia
THE ROLE OF CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS 203 Eva Gönczöl
Budapest, Hungary
THE EFFECTS OF CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION ON HUMAN MONOCYTE- 207 DERIVED DENDRITIC CELLS
Kis, Z., Pallinger, E., Endresz, V., Huszti Z, Burian, K, Falus, A., Gonczol, E.
Budapest, Szeged, Hungary
NO EVIDENCE OF INVOLVEMENT OF CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE IN SEVERE 208 CEREBROVASCULAR ATHEROSCLEROSIS BY MEANS OF QUANTITATIVE REAL-TIME PCR
Petra Apfalter, Wolfgang Barousch, Marion Nehr and Alexander M. Hirschl Vienna, Austria
CULTURE OF CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE FROM THE BRAINS OF LATE-ONSET 209 ALZHEIMERS DISEASE PATIENTS AND SEQUENCE VARIATIONS IN THE OMPL GENE
Ute Dreses-Werringloer, Yinghao Zhao, Judith A. Whittum-Hudson, Alan P. Hudson Detroit, USA
CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE AND STROKE: THE CRITICAL IMPACT OF PCR TECHNOLOGY 210 OR SEEING BEHIND THE CURTAIN OF A DIAGNOSTIC DILEMMA
Petra Apfalter and Eduard Diab Vienna, Linz, Austria
CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION IN RELATION TO CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS 211 Hock-Liew Eng, Chih-Hung Chen, Tsun-Mei Lin
Kaohsiung, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China
SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED CHLAMYDIAL INFECTIONS - SEQUELAE IN FEMALES 212 Jorma Paavonen
Helsinki, Finland
COMPLICATIONS OF CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMA TIS INFECTION- CAN THEY BE REVERSED BY 219 SCREENING
Herrmann B., Harbord R., EggerM., Lindblom B., Low N.
Uppsala, Sweden, Bristol, UK
INFECTION HISTORY AND IN VITRO NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODIES AGAINST CHLAMYDIA 220 TRACHOMATIS
Van Der Pol, B., Williams, J.A., Batteiger, B.E., Orr, D.P. & Fortenberry, J.D.
Indianapolis, Indiana USA
ASSOCIATION OF INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE, GENITOURINARY SYMPTOMS AND 221 HEALTH SEEKING BEHAVIOR IN MINORITY ADOLESCENT WOMEN WITH CHLAMYDIA
J.D. Champion, J.M. Piper, A.E.C. Holden, R.N. Shain, J.E. Korte, S. Perdue San Antonio, Texas, USA
ADOLESCENT WOMAN ABUSE AND SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS: A 222 FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYSIS OF CLINICAL DILEMMAS
Jane Dimmitt Champion, Katherine Artnak San Antonio, Texas, USA
FREQUENCY AND DISTRIBUTION OF CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS GENOTYPES CAUSING 223 CERVICAL INFECTION AMONG GYNAECOLOGIC PATIENTS
M. Angélica Martínez, M. Eugenia Pinto, Victoria Paredes, Jorge Sandoval, Ivan Reid, Enrique Napolitano, Raúl Aguirre and Ramiro Molina
Santiago, Chile
MOLECULAR TYPING OF THE CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS BY RFLP ANALYSIS AND 224 SEQUENCING OF THE PCR-AMPLIFIED MAJOR OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN GENE
D. Kese, Kek B., Petrovec M., Zore A.
Ljubljana, Slovenia
CHLAMYDIAL INFECTION IN NON-PREGNANT WOMEN WITH ENDOCERVICITIS IN ST. 225 PETERSBURG
Shirshova N., Shipitsyna E., Savicheva A., Polyanin A., Domeika M.
St.-Petersburg, Russia, Uppsala, Sweden
CHLAMYDIAL INFECTION MAY EXPLAIN SPOTTING 226 Per-Anders Märdh, Bo Sikström, Elisabeth Nagy
Lund, Sweden, Szeged, Hungary
CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS HEAT-SHOCK-PROTEIN 60 ANTIBODIES IN WOMEN WITHOUT 227 AND WITH TUBAL PATHOLOGY USING A NEW COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE ASSAY
J. Spaargaren, C.J. Bax, P.M. Oostvogel, J.B. Trimbos, P.J. Dörr, A.S. Peña, S.A. Morré Leiden, The Hague, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS IN FRESH TISSUE FROM THE FALLOPIAN TUBES OF PATIENTS 228 WITH ECTOPIC PREGNANCY
Carina Bjartling, Stellan Osser and Kenneth Persson Malmö, Sweden.
INFLUENCE OF CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS INFECTION DM COUPLES CONSULTING IN AN 229 IVF CENTER: PROSPECTIVE STUDY
B. de Barbeyrac, A. Papaxanthos, C. Mathieu, C. Germain, J.L. Brun, G. Chqne, G. Mayer, C. Bébéar, C. Hocké
Bordeaux, France
SEROLOGY COMPARISON BETWEEN PATIENTS WITH ECTOPIC PREGNANCY AND 230 PATIENTS WHO UNDERWENT SURGICAL STERILIZATION
Victoria Paredes, M. Angélica Martinez, Hugo Salinas Santiago, Chile
MANAGEMENT OF PERISITENT INFECTION CAUSED BY CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS 231 M.A. Gomberg, I.N. Aniskova, A.A. Kubanova
Moscow, Russsia
CLINICAL RELEVANCE OF SYSTEMIC AND LOCAL IGA RESPONSES IN WOMEN 232 SUSPECTED OF HAVING A UROGENITAL CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS INFECTION BUT
WITHOUT THE PRESENCE OF CT-DNA
S.A. Morré, K. Dreesbach, J. Merks, R.A. Coutinho, A.S. Peña, J. Spaargaren Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Wedel, Germany
CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS AND ITS EFFECT ON MALE FERTILITY 233 J. Rezacova , J. Masata , M. Pribylova , M. Drazdakova
Prague, Czech Republic
THE ROLE OF CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS IN PROSTATITIS SYNDROME 234 Visnja Skerk, Ivan Krhen, Slavko Schonwald, Vjeran Cajic, Leo Markovinovic, Srdan Roglic, Sime Zekan,
Arjana Tambic Andrasevic, Vladimira Kruzic Zagreb, Croatia
ANTIBODIES AGAINST THE CHLAMYDIAL HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN IN BLOOD SERA AND 235 SEMINAL PLASMA OF MEN (MALE PARTNERS OF SUBFERTILE COUPLES, DONORS OF
SEMEN AND BLOOD DONORS)
Zuzana Medkova, Leopold Pospisil, Jiri Canderle , Hana Stroblova Brno, Czech Republic
COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS OF SCREENING UNITED STATES ARMY MALE BASIC 236 TRAINING RECRUITS FOR CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS
Eric E. Shuping, Joel C. Gaydos, Charlotte A. Gaydos Silver Spring, Baltimore, MD, USA
CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS AND NEONATAL CONJUNCTIVITIS IN A DUTCH INNER CITY 237 Rours G.I.J.G, de Groot R., de Faber T., Verbrugh H., Verkooyen R.
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY OF A DUAL AMPLIFICATION CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS 238 IMMUNE-ASSAY IN CONJUNCTIVAL SPECIMENS COMPARED TO THE POLYMERASE
CHAIN REACTION
íren Budai, Csaba L. Maródi, Jeannette Toth Budapest, Hungary
OCULAR CHLAMYDIAL INFECTIONS: CLINICAL PICTURE, DIAGNOSIS, AND THERAPY 239 Eva-Maria Haller-Schober, Helga Lechner
Graz, Austria
PATHOGENIC ROLE OF CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS IN PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS 240 Iván Péter and Beatrix Farkas
Pécs, Hungary
THE VAGINAL COINFECTIONS OF CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS CERVICITIS 241 András Ujházy
Budapest, Hungary
STRATEGIES FOR EXTENDED CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS SEROLOGY IN INFERTILE 242 PATIENTS: A CLINICAL EVALUATION OF CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS MOMP-, CHLAMYDIAL 60KD HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN AND HUMAN HSP60 SEROLOGY
Andreas Neuer, Ying Gao, Istvan Sziller and Stefan Dieterle Witten/Herdecke, Germany, Wuhan, China, Budapest, Hungary
INFECTION WITH CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI MIMICKING SIDS 243 Walder G., Hotzel H., Brennsteiner G., BerndtA., Pavlik M., Dierich M.P., Stoiber H.
Innsbruck, Austria, Jena, Germany
EVIDENCE FOR CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI INFECTION IN PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA 244 D. Theegarten, O. Anhenn, H. Hotzel, M. Wagner, A. Marra, G. Stamatis, G. Mogilevski, K. Sachse
Bochum, Essen, Jena, Germany
DETECTION OF CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI AND CHLAMYDOPHILA ABORTUS IN INDUCED 245 SPUTUM OF PATIENTS WITH EXACERBATED OR STABLE CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE
PULMONARY DISEASE
O. Anhenn, D. Theegarten, H. Hotzel, K. Sachse, G. Rohde Bochum, Jena, Germany
EPIDEMIOLOGY
AN OUTBREAK OF LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM PROCTITIS AMONG MEN HAVING 249 SEX WITH MEN IN ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS
J.M. Ossewaarde, R.F. Nieuwenhuis, J. Dees, H.B. Thio, M. Thomeer, H.A.M. Neumann, H.M. Götz, M.J.W, van de Laar, W.I. van derMeijden
Rotterdam, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS AND MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM CO-INFECTION IN THE 250 YOUNG WOMEN'S PROJECT COHORT
Williams J.A., Van Der Pol B., KatzB.P., Batteiger B.E., Orr D.P., Fortenberry J.D.
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
PREVALENCE OF CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS OMPA GENOTYPE VARIANTS AMONG 251 UROGENITAL CLINICAL ISOLATES
Gomes J.P., Azevedo J., Santo I., Ferreira A., Paulino A., Florindo C., Correia H., Borrego M.J.
Lisboa, Portugal
PUBLIC HEALTH MEASURES THAT LEAD TO A SHARP DECREASE OF COMPLICATIONS 252 AND SEQUEL OF GENITAL CHLAMYDIAL INFECTIONS IN THE FEMALE
Per-Anders Mardh Lund, Sweden
TESTING OF URINE AND CERVIX SAMPLES FROM PREGNANT PATIENTS (IN THE THIRD 253 TRIMESTER) FOR THE PRESENCE OF INFECTION BY C. TRACHOMATIS USING PCR AND
LCR METHODS D.Hrubá, J.Masata Prague, Czech Republic
CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS INFECTION AND THE RISK OF PERINATAL MORTALITY IN 254 HUNGARY
László Kalmár, Judith Deák, Tibor Nyári Szeged, Hungary
THE PREVALENCE OF CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS INFECTION IN DIFFERENT 255 POPULATIONS OF ST.-PETERSBURG
I. Makhinenko, E. Sokolovsky, A. Savicheva, E. Shipitsyna, M. Domeika St.-Petersburg, Russia, Uppsala, Sweden
PREVALENCE OF CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS AND NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE INFECTIONS 256 AND SEXUAL BEHAVIOR AMONG FEMALE POPULATION IN NOVOSIBIRSK, RUSSIA
A.A. Khryanin, O.V. Reshetnikov, N.A. Krivenchuk, V.A. Aleksenzev, T.R. Teinina, A.D. Anpilogova, P. McMullin, M. Dubucq
Novosibirsk, Russia, San Diego, USA
SCREENING FOR CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS IN ASYMPTOMATIC WOMEN IN HUNGARY. 257 AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL AND COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS
Tibor Nyári, László Kalmár, Judith Deák Szeged, Hungary
PREVALENCE OF CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS AND ONCOGENIC HUMAN 258 PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPES IN CYTOLOGIC ATYPIA OF THE UTERINE CERVIX
József Kónya, Krisztina Szőke, Enikő Fehér, Anita Szalmás Debrecen, Hungary
THE PREVALENCE OF CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS IN ASYMPTOMATIC AND 259 SYMPTOMATIC MALE POPULATION IN CROATIA - A PROSPECTIVE PILOT STUDY
Ljubin Sternak S., Skerk V., Kruzic V., Vilibic Cavlek T.
Zagreb, Croatia
PREVALENCE CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS INFECTION AND SEXUAL BEHAVIOR AMONG 260 MALE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN NOVOSIBIRSK, RUSSIA
A.A. Khryanin, O.V. Reshetnikov, N.A. Krivenchuk, V.A. Aleksenzev, T.R. Teinina, P. McMullin, M. Dubucq Novosibirsk, Russia, San Diego, USA
OCCURRENCE OF CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS AND NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE 261 INFECTIONS AND SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR AMONG MALES ATTENDING STI CLINIC IN
NOVOSIBIRSK, RUSSIA
A.A. Khryanin, O. V. Reshetnikov, N.A. Krivenchuk, V.A. Aleksenzev, T.R. Teinina, P. McMullin, M. Dubucq Novosibirsk, Russia, San Diego, USA
CONTACT TRACING IN THE MANAGEMENT OF GENITAL INFECTION WITH CHLAMYDIA 262 TRACHOMATIS
Santo I., Azevedo J., Gomes J.P., Borrego M.J.
Lisboa, Portugal
EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES ON THE PREVALENCE OF C. TRACHOMATIS IN FEMALE 263 PATIENTS WITH CLINICALLY MANIFESTED ENDOCERVICITIS
Emilia Grueva, Ilia Borissov Sofia, Russe, Bulgaria
CTSG - A NOVEL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY FOR STUDYING THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF GENITAL 264 CHLAMYDIAL INFECTIONS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
Mihael Skerlev Zagreb, Croatia
THE PREVALENCE OF CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS INFECTIONS IN SOUTH HUNGARY 265 Zoltán Fekete, Zoltán Pál, György Bártfai and Judith Deák
Szeged, Hungary
PREVALENCE OF GENITAL CHLAMYDIAL INFECTIONS AMONG YOUNG FEMALES IN 266 PRAGUE
Masata, J.; Drazdakovâ, M.; Hruba, D.; Rezacova, J.
Prague, Czech Republic
PREVALENCE OF GENITAL CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS INFECTIONS AMONG YOUNG 267 FEMALES IN ZAGREB
Vlasta Hirsl-Hecej Zagreb, Croatia
CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS IN OUR ROUTINE WORK - 2 YEARS OVERVIEW 268 Tatjana Grdanoska, Gordana Jankoska, Ivanka Hadzi, Petruseva Meloska, Danica Cvetkovic,
Gordana Mircevska, Milena Petrovska, Nikola Panovski Skopje, Macedonia
ASSOCIATION BETWEEN CIRCULATING C. PNEUMONIAE-DNA AND 269 HERPESVIRIDAE-DNA, INFLAMMATORY BIOMARKERS, AND RESPIRATORY FUNCTION
AMONG COPD SUBJECTS
Smieja M., Petrich A., Blankenberg S., Carruthers S., Mahony J.B., Luinstra K., Chong S., Leigh R„ Pugsley S., Cox G.
Hamilton, Ontario, Calgary, Alberton, Canada, Mainz, Germany
EVIDENCE FOR THE INVOLVEMENT OF SLMKAMA NEGEVENSIS IN RESPIRATORY ILLNESS IN 270 CORNWALL, UK
M. G. Friedman, S. Kahane, B. Dvoskin, J. W. Hartley Beer Sheva, Israel, Cornwall, UK
IDENTIFICATION OF SIMKANIA NEGEVENSIS AND ITS ISOLATION FROM DRINKING 271 WATER AND WASTE WATER IN ISRAEL
S. Kahane, B. Dvoskin, N. Platzner, A. Itzhaki, M. G. Friedman Beer Sheva, Israel
SURVEILLANCE
SURVEILLANCE - WHAT WE KNOW AND DO NOT KNOW ABOUT THE SPREAD OF 275 INFECTIONS BY CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS
Per-Anders Mardh Lund, Sweden
EPIDEMIOLOGY OF GENITAL CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS INFECTIONS IN THE UNITED 279 STATES
Debra J. Mosure Atlanta, USA
CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS INFECTIONS - SURVEILLANCE IN SOUTHERN-HUNGARY 280 Bártfai György & Deák Judith
Szeged, Hungary
SURVEILLANCE OF CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS IN THE (NOT YET EXPANDED) EUROPEAN 281 UNION
Ian Simms, Catherine M. Lowndes and Kevin A. Fenton London, United Kingdom
THE EMERGENCE OF LGV DETECTED IN FRANCE THROUGH A ROUTINE LABORATORY- 282 BASED SURVEILLANCE NETWORK OF CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS INFECTIONS IN
FRANCE
V. Goulet, B. de Barbeyrac, E. Laurent, M. Clerc, P. Sednaoui and Renachla biologists Saint-Maurice, Paris, France
CHLAMYDIA OF VETERINARY INTEREST
ANIMAL CHLAMYDIOSIS 285 Andreas Pospischil
Zurich, Switzerland
GENOMIC ANALYSIS OF THE ORDER CHLAMYDIALES 293 G.S.A. Myers, P. Bavoil, R. Brunham, T.D. Read, S.R. Gill and CM. Fraser
Rockville, Baltimore, USA
SEQUENCING, ANNOTATION AND COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE CHLAMYDOPHILA 294 ABORTUS GENOME
D. Longbottom, N.R. Thomson, C. Yeats, M. Holden, S. Bentleym, M. Livingstone, R.S. Yaga, F.A. Lainson, A. Cerdeno-Tarraga, E. Feil, K. Bell and J. Parkhill Edinburgh, Cambridge, Dundee, UK
CHLAMYDIA ARE HIGHLY ADAPTED PARASITES IN MAN AND ANIMAL 295 Eberhard Straube, Jürgen Rödel
Jena, Germany
CHLAMYDIAE IN WILD BOAR - PATHOGENS OR NATURAL RESERVOIR? 296 Helmut Hotzel, Angela Berndt, Falk Melzer and Konrad Sachse
Jena, Germany
A PCR-RFLP ASSAY TARGETING THE 16S RIBOSOMAL GENE FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF 297 ANIMAL CHLAMYDIOSES
N. Vicari, R. Santoni, P.G. Vigo, S. Magnino Pavia, Italy
ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF CHLAMYDIAL ISOLATES FROM AUSTRALIAN 298 MARSUPIALS
Patricia M. Roblin, Tracey Bodetti, Peter Timms, Andrei Kutlin, Tamara Reznik, Margaret R. Hammerschlag Brooklyn, USA, Brisbane, Australia
A FIELD APPLICATION OF A PCR-RFLP ASSAY FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF CHLAMYDIA CEAE 299 FROM PORCINE CLINICAL SAMPLES
R. Santoni, N. Vicari, I. Labalestra and S. Magnino Pavia, Italy
GENETIC VARIATION IN THE 5S RRNA-NQRFINTERGENIC SEGMENT IN CHLAMYDIA SPP. 300 Zhi Liu, Roger Plaut, Bernhard Kaltenboeck, Roger Rank, Simone Magnino,
Deborah Dean and Patrik Bavoil Baltimore, USA
THE ROLE OF CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI INFECTION IN CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE 301 PULMONARY DISEASE AND ITS ZOONOTIC IMPLICATIONS
D. Theegarten, O. Anhenn, H. Hotzel, G. Rohde, G. Stamatis, G. Mogilevski and K. Sachse Bochum, Germany
SEROLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI 302 STRAINS USING SEROVAR-SPECIFIC MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES, OMPA RFLP ANALYSIS
A N D OMPA S E Q U E N C I N G
T. Geens, M. Van Loock, E. Kaleta, S. Magnino, A. Andersen andD. Vanrompay Ghent, Heverlee, Belgium, Giessen, Germany, Pavia, Italy, Ames, USA
PRELIMINARY DATA ON PCR-BASED RFLP ANALYSIS OF PGP3 GENE OF CHLAMYDIA 303 PSITTACI (AVIAN STRAINS)
E. Storni, M.Donati and R. Cevenini Bologna, Italy
HIGH PREVALENCE OF CHLAMYDIAL (CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI) INFECTION IN FETAL 304 MEMBRANES OF ABORTED EQUINE FETUSES SHOWN BY IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY
AND PCR
Levente Szeredi, Helmut Hotzel and Konrad Sachse Budapest, Hungary, Jena, Germany
USE OF ANTIGEN ELISA AND REAL-TIME PCR FOR THE DETECTION OF CHLAMYDIACEAE 305 IN SWEDISH ANIMALS
Stina Englund, Stefan Jernstedt, Goran Bolske Uppsala, Sweden
DETECTION OF CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI IN HORSES WITH RECURRENT AIRWAY 306 OBSTRUCTION
D. Theegarten, B. Mentrup, H. Hotzel, G. Mogilevski, K. Sachse, 0. Anhenn Bochum, Jena, Germany
EVALUATION OF AN OMPA NESTED PCR / ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY FOR DIAGNOSING 307 CHLAMYDIOSIS IN TURKEYS
M. Van Loock, K. Verminnen, T. Messmer, B.M. Goddeeris, G. Volckaert and D. Vanrompay Ghent, Belgium
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI IN PIGEONS AND 308 WILD BIRDS IN CROATIA
Estella Prukner-Radovcic, Danijela Horvatek, Z. Gottstein, Irena Ciglar Grozdanic and H. Mazija Zagreb, Croatia
IDENTIFICATION OF CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI SUBCLINICAL INFECTIONS FROM 309 ORNATE BIRDS IN MEXICO
A.M. Rojas-Martinez, C. Escalante-Ochoa, J.L. Solorzano-Velasco, R. Monies de Oca Mexico, Mexico
COMPARISON OF TWO COMMERCIAL ANTIBODY DETECTION KITS FOR DIAGNOSIS OF 310 INFECTIONS DUE TO CHLAMYDOPHILA SPECIES IN SWEDISH CATTLE
Ann-Charlotte Godin, Camilla Bjdrkman, Stefan Alenius Uppsala, Sweden
EVALUATION OF AN AUTOMATED COMPLEMENT FIXATION TEST (SERAMAT) FOR THE 311 DETECTION OF CHLAMYDIAL ANTIBODIES IN SHEEP AND GOAT SERA
S. Magnino, S. Giovannini, C. Paoli, P. Ardenghi and V. Sambri Pavia, Brescia, Monteriggioni, Bologna, Italy
CHLAMYDOPHILA ABORTUS - THE RISK TO PREGNANCY 312 David Buxton, David Longbottom, Ian E. Anderson, Morag Livingstone, Sean Wattegedera, Stephen Maley
and Gary Entrican Edinburgh, Scotland
RECHALLENGE OF PREVIOUSLY-INFECTED PREGNANT EWES WITH CHLAMYDOPHILA 313 ABORTUS
D.J. Sammin, B.K. Markey, H.F. Bassett and M.C. McElroy Dublin, Ireland
DETECTION OF CHLAMYDIA SPECIES IN MALE GENITAL TRACTS AND SEMEN OF 314 RUMINANTS AND PIGS: PRELIMINARY RESULTS
K. Teankum, N. Borel, F. Janett, L. Vaughan, E. Brugnera, E. Biirgi, L. Corboz, R. Weilenmann, C. Kaiser and A. Pospischil
Zurich, Switzerland
SEROLOGICAL DETECTION OF CHLAMYDOPHILA ABORTUS INFECTION IN SHEEP 315 M. Livingstone, G. Entrican, S. Wattegedera, D. Buxton and D. Longbottom
Edinburgh, Scotland
DIAGNOSIS OF OVINE CHLAMYDOPHILOSIS ABORTIONS BY PCR-RFLP PERFORMED ON 316 VAGINAL SWABS
F. Marsilio, B. Di Martino, C. Di Francesco and I. Meridiani Teramo, Italy
CHLAMYDIAL CONJUNCTIVITIS IN DOMESTICATED ANIMALS: PRELIMINARY RESULTS 317 IN GUINEA PIGS, PIGS AND SHEEP
A. Becker, L. Wohlgroth, L. Vaughan, E. Brugnera, D. Zimmermann, S. Kaps, B. Spiess and A. Pospischil Zürich, Switzerland
ROLE IN ABORTION OF CHLAMYDOPHILA ABORTUS IN SHEEP AND GOATS IN SARDINIA, 318 ITALY
G. Masala, R. Porcu, G. Sanna, A. Tanda and S. Tola Sassari, Italy
INFLUENCE OF THE TH2 IMMUNE RESPONSE ESTABLISHED BY NIPPOSTRONGYLUS 319 BRASILIENSIS INFECTION ON THE PROTECTION DETERMINED BY DIFFERENT VACCINES
AGAINST CHLAMYDOPHILA ABORTUS INFECTION
M.R. Caro, A.J. Buendía, N. Ortega, M.C. Gallego, C.M. Martinez, F. Cuello, M.R. Ruiz-Ybanez, K.J. Erb and J. Salinas
Murcia, Spain
COMPARISON OF CELL CULTURE METHODOLOGIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF 320 CHLAMYDOPHILA ABORTUS AND CHLAMYDOPHILA PECORUM
E.A. Rodriguez-Reyes, C. Escalante-Ochoa, R. Monies de Oca Mexico, Mexico
COMPARISON OF FOETAL AND MATERNAL PLACENTAL IMMUNOPATHOLOGICAL 321 RESPONSES IN CHLAMYDOPHILA ABORTUS-CHALLENGED SHEEP
Sammin, D.J., Markey, B.K., Bassett, H.F. and McElroy, M.C.
Dublin, Ireland
ROLE OF T CELL SUBSETS IN A MOUSE MODEL OF CHLAMYDOPHILA ABORTUS 322 INFECTION
Buendia, A.J., C.M. Martinez, N. Ortega, J. Sanchez, M.R. Caro, J.A. Navarro, M.C. Gallego, F. Cuello and J. Salinas
Murcia, Spain
y/8 T CELL RESPONSES TO CHLAMYDOPHILA ABORTUS INFECTION IN SHEEP 323 Mara Rocchi, Catherine Jepson, Gary Entrican and Declan McKeever
Pentlands, Edinburgh, UK
