FAMILY CHLAMYDOZOACEAE 1115 



the corneaand conjunctiva causing highly Immunological aspects: As for C. tra- 



destructive lesions. chomatis. 



Chemotherapy : Susceptible to sulfon- Pathogenicity : Pathogenic for man, 



amides and penicillin. _ baboons and monkeys. Causes an acute 



conjunctivitis and, in man, an inflamma- 



Source : Found in scrapings of cornea 

 or conjunctiva in cases of trachoma. 



Habitat: The etiological agent of tra- *'°" ^^ *^^ ^°^^^^ gemto-urinary tract, 



choma in man. Chemotherapy: Susceptible to sulfon- 

 amides and penicillin. 



2. Chlamydozoon oculogenitale Mosh- Source: Found in conjunctival exu- 



kovsky. (Moshkovsky, Uspekhi Sour- dates, and in exudates from infected 



emennoi Biologii, 19, 1945, 12.) From ^^^^^hra or cervix. Also present in con- 



Latin oculus, eye and genitalis, genital. , • , , , ^ , 



,, , , 1 i • • i- taminated pools of water. 



Morphology and staining reactions : 



As for Chlamydozoon trachomatis. Habitat : The etiological agent of swim- 



Cultivation: Has never been culti- ming pool conjunctivitis, neonatal con- 

 vated. junctivitis or inclusion conjunctivitis. 



Genus II. Miyagawanella Brumpt. 



(Ann. de Parasit., 16, 1938, 153.) Named for Prof. Miyagawa, the Japanese bacte- 

 riologist, who first (1935) grew the type species in the chick embryo. 



Coccoid to spherical cells with a developmental cycle. Gram-negative. Intra- 

 cytoplasmic habitat. Cultivatable in chicken embryonic tissues. Some species are 

 susceptible to sulfonamide or penicillin action. 



The type species is Miyagawanella lymphogranulotnatis Brumpt. 



Key to the species of genus Miyagawanella. 



I. The etiological agent of lymphogranuloma venereum, lymphogranuloma in- 

 guinale, climatic bubo, and esthiomene in man. 



1. Miyagawanella lymphogranulotnatis. 

 II. The etiological agent of psittacosis or parrot fever. 



2. Miyagawanella psittacii. 



III. The etiological agent of ornithosis (Meyer). 



3. Miyagawanella ornithosis. 



IV. The etiological agent of one type of viral pneumonia. 



4. Miyagawanella pneumoniae. 

 V. The etiological agent of mouse pneumonitis (Gonnert). 



5. Miyagawanella bronchopneumoniae . 

 VI. The etiological agent of feline pneumonitis (Baker). 



6. Miyagawanella felis. 

 VII. The etiological agent of Louisiana pneumonia. 



7. Miyagawanella louisianae. 



VIII. The etiological agent called the Illinois virus, the cause of one type of viral 

 pneumonia. 



8. Miyagawanella illinii. 



