Isolation of a new chlamydial agent from
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Karine Laroucau; Fabien Vorimore; Rachid Aaziz; Angela Berndt; Evelyn Schubert;
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Article
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2009
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Three cases of atypical pneumonia in individuals working at a poultry slaughterhouse prompted an epidemiological survey in 10 poultry farms that had supplied birds. Using a Chlamydiaceae-specific real-time PCR assay, chlamydial agents were detected in 14 of 25 investigated flocks. Rather unexpectedl