ArticleEuropean journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology2008
Real-time PCR detection and quantitation of Chlamydophila psittaci in human and avian specimens from a veterinary clinic cluster.
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- Clinical features and prognostic predictors of C. Psittaci Pneumonia: a systematic review and individual patient meta-analysis.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Animal sources for zoonotic transmission of psittacosis: a systematic review.BMC infectious diseases · 2020Pooled it
- Laboratory methods for case finding in human psittacosis outbreaks: a systematic review.BMC infectious diseases · 2018Pooled it
- A pediatric case of Chlamydia psittaci caused severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) in Italy.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2023Article
- Wastewater surveillance beyond COVID-19: a ranking system for communicable disease testing in the tri-county Detroit area, Michigan, USA.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- The Application Value of Metagenomic and Whole-Genome Capture Next-Generation Sequencing in the Diagnosis and Epidemiological Analysis of Psittacosis.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022Article
- A Review of Chlamydial Infections in Wild Birds.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
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- A Psittacosis Outbreak among English Office Workers with Little or No Contact with Birds, August 2015.PLoS currents · 2018Article
- An outbreak of psittacosis at a veterinary school demonstrating a novel source of infection.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2017Article
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- Australian human and parrot Chlamydia psittaci strains cluster within the highly virulent 6BC clade of this important zoonotic pathogen.Scientific reports · 2016Article
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- Clinical features of endemic community-acquired psittacosis.New microbes and new infections · 2014Article
- Genotyping of Chlamydophila psittaci by real-time PCR and high-resolution melt analysis.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2009Article
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Abstract
We report three cases of psittacosis in staff working in a veterinary surgery, which was related to exposure to a sick, wild psittacine bird. Chlamydial genus- and chlamydial species-specific DNA was detected in clinical specimens, including throat swabs, whole blood and urine. The organism load was quantified by real-time PCR (RT-PCR), which revealed 10(5)-fold more organisms in conjunctival swabs from the source bird than in the human samples. One clinic attendant was infected despite using personal protective equipment when handling the bird. This is the first report of PCR analyses of blood and urine samples being used to diagnose human psittacosis, and the first time that the organism load in humans has been compared to that of the infecting bird.
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