Chlamydia trachomatis

No this organism is not the correct cause of Bob's chronic pneumonia. Chlamydia trachomatis pneumonia is normally seen in the newborn infant. The patient does not usually have a fever and rarely produces any sputum. The lungs contain infiltrates rather than consolidations. The organism is an obligate intracellular bacteria that is not stainable by gram stain or acid-fast stain techniques.
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