Berger L, Volp K, Mathews S, Speare R, Timms P
CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory, Geelong, Victoria, Queensland, Australia.
J Clin Microbiol. 1999 Jul;37(7):2378-80. doi: 10.1128/JCM.37.7.2378-2380.1999.
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.
通过电子显微镜、肺炎衣原体特异性荧光抗体染色、细胞培养以及ompA、ompB和16S rRNA基因测序，在一只患病的野生大斑蟾蛙（Mixophyes iteratus）的肺组织中鉴定出肺炎衣原体考拉生物变种。这是衣原体菌株感染恒温动物和变温动物的首例报告，也是该种衣原体自然感染的第四种宿主（除人类、考拉和马之外）。这只青蛙患有严重的慢性单核细胞性肺炎、非再生性贫血和全血细胞减少症。
