A new medium for isolating Campylobacter jejuni/coli.

Chiamydia trachomatis is not a cause of acute gastroenterids in young children Chlamydia trachomatis is so far considered to cause superficial infections limited to the epithelium of conjunctiva, urethra, cervix, and rectum.Recently, C trachomatis has been recovered from the throats and nasal discharges of infants with inclusion blenor- rhoea,' and from the throat of a patient with pharyngitis without any history of con- jUtctivitis.2In addition, C trachomatis can induce a typical pneumonia syndrome in infants.3It is worthwhile pointing out that the throat and the lungs contain cells histologically similar to the epithelial cells of the ocular and genital tract.Such observation made Schachter4 speculate that the pres- ence of columnar epithelium is critical for the growth of C trachomatis and hence for the occurrence of C trachomatis-related disease.Since such cells are present in the