No this organism is not the correct cause of Helen'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. Try
again.