Minor Respiratory Illnesses Caused by an Agent of the Psittacosis/ Lymphogranuloma-Venereum Group

Fraser, P. K.; Hatch, L. A.; Clercq, Le; Shell, G.N.; Pratt, D.W.; Forster, JillM.R.; Wainwright, Milton

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(64)93063-6

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“…The epidemic curve was consistent with case-to-case spread or a continuing single-source outbreak with low exposure or low infectivity rates. Fraser et al (1964) described endemic chlamydial infection, both sub-clinical and symptomatic, amongst naval recruits in Portsmouth. Outside such institutions this would remain unnoticed.…”

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An outbreak of psittacosis in a boys' boarding school

Pether¹,

Noah

Lau

et al. 1984

J. Hyg.

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In 1980, an outbreak of a mild illness involving twenty pupils and four adults in a boys' boarding school was identified serologically as psittacosis. Intensive epidemiological investigations did not uncover the source. It is suggested either that sources of chlamydia other than avian exist, which may produce a milder illness than the avian type, or that human-to-human spread of a mild form of chlamydiosis occurs.

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An outbreak of psittacosis in a boys' boarding school

Pether¹,

Noah

Lau

et al. 1984

J. Hyg.

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“…Serum samples were found positive for chlamydia antigen in indirect CF tests (10 of 20 individual blood samples examined), but attempts to isolate chlamydia from tissues of two layers sacrificed for further examination were unsuccessful (Karrer et al, 1950). A flu-like infection was seen in recruits at a navy centre close to a chicken run (Frazer et al, 1964). The low percentage of seropositive sailors (55 of 1608 tested) and birds (three) screened with group-specific chlamydia antigen makes this an unlikely case of poultry transmitted psittacosis.…”

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Chlamydial infections of poultry and human health

Salisch¹,

Malottki²,

Ryll³

et al. 1996

World's Poultry Science Journal

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The incidence of Chlamydia psittaci antibodies in patients with respiratory tract diseases

Sarateanu

Ehrengut

1981

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The incidence of Chlamydia psittaci infections in Hamburg has been studied using the complement fixation test on 655 human sera collected from patients with respiratory tract diseases. Of the 653 sera investigated, 78 (11.9%) showed antibody titers between 1:8 and 1:128. Of the positive sera, 21 (16.9%) presented values of greater than or equal to 1:32. This infection is encountered more often in individuals over 21 years of age (15.9% to 23.4%) than in persons under 20 (0.8% to 6.0%). General practitioners' attention must be drawn to Chlamydia psittaci infections, since they seem to be of greater importance in human pathology than is generally assumed.

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Minor Respiratory Illnesses Caused by an Agent of the Psittacosis/ Lymphogranuloma-Venereum Group

Cited by 13 publications

References 6 publications

An outbreak of psittacosis in a boys' boarding school

An outbreak of psittacosis in a boys' boarding school

Chlamydial infections of poultry and human health

The incidence of Chlamydia psittaci antibodies in patients with respiratory tract diseases

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