id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-023698-wvk200j0 Hammerschlag, Margaret R. Chlamydia pneumoniae 2014-10-31 .txt text/plain 10016 533 38 Because the organism has been difficult to grow and because of the lack of a commercially available other diagnostic assay, most original associations with respiratory diseases have been use of serology with the microimmunofluorescence (MIF) test. 38, 39 For an example of the complexity of this issue, consider that two multicenter pneumonia treatment studies in children showed that although 7% to 13% of the patients in the study had positive culture results and 7% to 18% met the serologic criteria with the MIF test for acute infection, they were not the same patients. pneumoniae infection is that the MIF method used to detect serum antibodies is not standardized; recent studies have shown substantial interlaboratory variation in the performance of these tests. Multicenter comparison trial of DNA extraction methods and PCR assays for detection of Chlamydia pneumoniae in endarterectomy specimens Multicenter comparison trial of DNA extraction methods and PCR assays for detection of Chlamydia pneumoniae in endarterectomy specimens ./cache/cord-023698-wvk200j0.txt ./txt/cord-023698-wvk200j0.txt