Chlamydia Infections

Introduction.- Chapter 1. Taxonomy of Chlamydia.- 1.1. Taxonomy of Chlamydiales.- 1.2. Brief characteristics of the Chlamydiaceae family.- Chapter 2. Pathogenesis of Chlamydiosis.- 2.1 Structural and functional characteristics, virulence factors of chlamydia spp.- 2.2. Interaction of chlamydia with host cells.- 2.3 Functional state of the immune system in patients with various forms of chronic urogenital chlamydial infection.- 2.4 Results of correlation analysis of immunological parameters in patients with localized and widespread forms of urogenital chlamydiosis.- Chapter 3. Epidemiology of chlamydial infections.- 3.1. Infections due to Chlamydia trachomatis.- 3.2. Infections caused by Chlamydia pneumonia.- 3.3  Infections by Chlamydia psittaci.- 3.4. Diseases caused by Chlamydia felis, Chlamydia abortus and Chlamydia caviae.- Chapter 4. Laboratory, instrumental and morphological diagnostics of Chlamydial infections.- 4.1 Modern aspects of diagnostics of diseases caused by C. trachomatis.- 4.2 Indications for testing for urogenital chlamydia.- 4.3 Methodological aspects of laboratory diagnostics of chlamydia.- 4.4 Diagnostic value of the results obtained by various methods of diagnosing chlamydial infection.- 4.5 Molecular ¬biological methods for diagnostics of C.trachomatis.- 4.6 Cultural method.- 4.7 Rapid tests in the diagnosis of sexually transmitted infections.- 4.8 Serological tests (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, indirect immunofluorescence).- 4.9 Determination of serotypes and molecular ¬biological characteristics of C. trachomatis.- 4.10 Diagnostics of urogenital chlamydia associated with trichomonas invasion.- 4.11 Diagnosis of widespread forms of chlamydial infection.- 4.12 Diagnosis of persistent forms of chlamydial infection.- 4.13. Laboratory and instrumental diagnostics of pneumochlamydiosis.- 4.14 Laboratory and instrumental diagnostics of ornithosis.- 4.15. Morphological methods for diagnosing chlamydiosis.- Chapter 5. Clinical and morphological characteristics of Chlamydial infections in humans.- 5.1. Urogenital chlamydiosis.- 5.2 Chlamydial lesions of the visual organ (Boyko E.V., Poznyak A.L., Suetov A.A.).- 5.3. Chlamydial lesions of the nervous system (with the participation of Vainshenker Yu.I., Mudritsky V.M.).- 5.4 PNEUMOCHLAMYDIOSIS.- 5.5 Arthropathy associated with chlamydial infection.- 5.6. Periodontitis (Together with A.F. Eliseeva).- 5.7 Other organ lesions.- Chapter 6. Perinatal chlamydiosis.- 6.1 Lessons of the afterbirth in chlamydiosis.- 6.2 Intrauterine chlamydiosis.- 6.3 Remote consequences of intrauterine chlamydiosis (in collaboration with YI Vainshenker).- Chapter 7. Problems of mixed chlamydial infections.- 7.1 Chlamydiosis and influenza.- 7.2 Chlamydiosis  and Covid.- 7.3 Combined brain lesions in severe non-infectious lesions (jointly with Yu.I. Vainshenker).- 7.4. Chlamydiosis and other urogenital infections.- Chapter 8. Chlamydia and non-infectious diseases.- 8.1 Chlamydia Pneumonia and atherosclerosis (jointly with Yu.I. Vainshenker).- 8.2 Role of Chlamydia pneumoniae in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis.- 8.3. Chlamydia and neurodegenerative diseases.- 8.4 Brain lesions in HIV infected patients associated with C. pneumoniae (in collaboration with Y.I. Vainshenker.- 8.5 Different neurological pathology associated with chlamydia (in collaboration with Y.I. Vainshenker).- 8.6 Other diseases probably associated with chlamydiosis.- Chapter 9. Chlamydiosis in animals.- 9.1. Chlamydiosis in cattle.- 9.2. Chlamydiosis in sheep.- 9.3. Chlamydiosis in pigs.- 9.4 Conclusion.- Chapter 10. Experimental chlamydiosis.- 10.1 Review of existing models of chlamydial infections.- 10.2 Review of existing experimental models of chlamydial infection of the nervous system.- 10.2 Ultrastructural changes in experimental chlamydial meningoencephalitis (L.S. Onischenko, partly in collaboration with M.M. Odinak, M.M. Mikhailenko, I.V. Nuralova).- Conclusion.