Bibliography Area
October 30th, 2007
This annotated bibliography area contains research reports, reviews, and correspondence relating to C. pneumoniae infection, asthma, chronic bronchitis, and COPD.
Taken together, these data support the Chlamydia-Asthma Theory: that a significant proportion of asthma is caused by infection, and is treatable with antibiotics (#57).
The bibliography includes the first published report(s) on the following topics:
Epidemiological
- C. pneumoniae infection, asthmatic bronchitis and asthma (#1).
- C. pneumoniae and smoking (#3).
- C. pneumoniae and the “infectious asthma” syndrome (#18).
- C. pneumoniae heat shock protein 60 antibodies, asthma and decreased lung function (#40, #45, #62).
- C. pneumoniae as a common denominator in asthma, chronic bronchitis and COPD
(#48, #53).
Clinical
- C. pneumoniae PCR in primary care clinical practice (#54).
- C. pneumoniae initiation of chronic asthma (#30) and its “cure” (#19).
- Microbiological eradication of C. pneumoniae from lung fluid and asthma
improvement (#36). - Antibiotic effectiveness in “brittle” asthma (#31).
- Randomized clinical trial (RCT) evidence for lasting symptom improvement after antibiotic treatment of persistent asthma (#60).
Miscellaneous
- Definition for adult acute asthmatic bronchitis (#14).
- Prevalence of adult-onset asthma in practice-based research network
(primary care) settings (#13). - Hypothesis that C. pneumoniae infection causes atopy (#55).
- Persistence of C. pneumoniae in vascular tissues after 4 to 6 weeks treatment (#42).
- Suggestion to study C. pneumoniae and regional variations in heart disease (#7).