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BACKGROUND
Chlamydia psittaci infection typically causes a mild influenza-like illness in humans. However, during pregnancy, this disease may present with severe headache, hypoxemia, thrombocytopenia, anemia, hepatic dysfunction, and disseminated intravascular coagulation. Limited reports of
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Psittacosis is a systemic disease that causes fever, headache and pneumonia. Although potentially serious, it is rarely fatal unless respiratory or renal failure occurs. In this case report we describe a case of psittacosis with an unusual clinical picture for this disease and where, despite
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Psittacosis, also referred to as ornithosis, is a disease primarily of birds, which may be transmitted to humans. Psittacosis is caused by Chlamydia psittaci, an obligate intracellular parasite found worldwide. Humans are infected with C. psittaci when the organism enters the blood stream, usually
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In the absence of recognized pneumonitis, psittacosis is unlikely to be considered as a cause of infection in patients with febrile illnesses. To identify findings useful in the diagnosis of psittacosis, the clinical and roentgenographic characteristics of 46 cases that occurred in two outbreaks
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Three familial cases of psittacosis are reported. The first case was a 46-year-old woman, the second case, her 18-year-old daughter. Both of them often visited the house of the third case, a 49-year-old women, who was the elder sister of case 1 and who took care of the chick of a budgerigar which
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Between May 1 and Aug 1, 1974, 114 of approximately 1,000 employees in 7 turkey processing plants in Texas (5), Missouri (1), and Nebraska (1) had an illness compatible with psittacosis. The illness was characterized by fever, severe headache, and pneumonia. Treatment with tetracycline was effective
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A 14-year-old boy was admitted to our hospital complaining of dull headache, high fever and decreased visual acuity of his left eye. Physical examination on admission revealed nuchal rigidity, positive Kernig's sign, slight hyperreflexia of deep tendon reflex, and decreased visual acuity of his left
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Case 1 was a 55 year old female whose primary complaint was pyrexia. Anamnesis consisted of a fever at a 39 degrees C level beginning on September 15, 1987 with headache and muscle pain. The patient was examined by a nearby physician. Despite taking medication, there was no break in the fever. The
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A 45-year-old male who had looked over pet-birds at a bird shop 11 days before, developed a high fever with chills. Without any response to cephalexin, he was admitted to the hospital, with the chief complaints of high fever and sever headache on the 8th day of illness. The chest X-ray films taken
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In Europe, Chlamydia psittaci is a relatively common cause of abortion in sheep and other mammals. Psittacosis in humans is typically described as a mild-to-moderate flu-like illness. If psittacosis is acquired during pregnancy, it can present as a severe, progressive, febrile illness, with
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We report the case of a woman who has a parrot fever disease. The first manifestations were headache, fever and flu-like muscle pain. The diagnostic was finally suspected by the anamnesis, which revealed that the patient lived with parrots, and confirmed by serological analysis. Pulmonary symptoms
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Patients usually provisionally diagnosed as having typhoid fever or pneumonia are regularly admitted to the Rietfontein Fever Hospital suffering from psittacosis. The main symptoms are intense headache, chills and fever and an irritating non-productive cough. Later most patients develop signs of
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Three members of a family acquired psittacosis after exposure to a wild pigeon. Each of the patients had pulmonary infiltrates, prominent headache, abdominal complaints, and serologic evidence for infection with Chlamydia psittaci. Of 759 cases of psittacosis reported to the Centers for Disease
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Human psittacosis caused by Chlamydophila psittaci is one of the most common zoonotic atypical pneumonias featuring pulmonary as well as extrapulmonary infections. Most of the cases involve avian contact history especially with psittacine birds. Herein we report a 44-year-old male patient displaying
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An outbreak of ornithosis occurred in Lidköping, a small town in Southwest Sweden, in January 1967 through May 1969. 24 proved cases were known, aged from 10 to 72 years, 19 patients gave a history of contact with birds (parrots, canaries, parakeets), 13 of them with birds from the same pet shop.
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