Conclusions Chlamydiainfections are sporadic without apparent outbreaks in Wenzhou area. Although account for a proportion in children with acute lower respiratory tract infections.
"Chlamydia will cause infections in healthy animals but if you have an immune-suppressed animal you would logically think it would get more infections and more disease, " he said.
Osterhaus said the findings, reported in the science journal Nature, did not exclude the possibility that chlamydia or other infections could increase the severity of the illness in some people.