Outbreak of ornithosis.

Barrett, P. K. M.; Greenberg, Mark

doi:10.1136/bmj.2.5507.206

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“…To elaborate, it may be noted that in all but PUO patients cough was a prominent, and in half a dramatic, symptom; this has been the experience of others (Barrett & Greenberg, 1966;Erooga, 1969). This symptom was accompanied by a propensity to mimic major chest disease: tuberculosis, bronchial carcinoma, pulmonary embolism and bronchiectasis being the author's first diagnoses in some patients.…”

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Ornithosis in Somerset. Experience in the South Somerset Clinical Area 1964–71

Anderson

1973

Postgraduate Medical Journal

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Summary During an 8-year period, seventy patients were found, by complement fixation testing, to have had ornithosis. A clinical analysis was made of forty-seven who fulfilled strict diagnostic criteria; thirty-three had been referred to a chest clinic, fourteen had been hospitalized. A non-specific, febrile, myalgic illness with respiratory symptoms was the usual clinical syndrome; cough was a prominent, often dramatic, symptom. Pulmonary crepitations, variable radiographic changes, and a normal white blood cell count were found to be useful diagnostic features. Ornithosis sometimes masqueraded as major chest disease, and could be debilitating. Careful retrospective interrogation revealed significant bird contacts in the majority of patients. Treatment with a tetracycline was of possible clinical benefit.

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“…Others (Barrett & Greenberg, 1966;Grist & McLean, 1964) have also reported more cases in the early months of the year.…”

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Ornithosis in Somerset. Experience in the South Somerset Clinical Area 1964–71

Anderson

1973

Postgraduate Medical Journal

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

Sarateanu

Ehrengut

1981

Infection

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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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Cutaneous Manifestations of Systemic Infections

Cherry¹

2009

Feigin and Cherry's Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases

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Outbreak of ornithosis.

Cited by 15 publications

References 6 publications

Ornithosis in Somerset. Experience in the South Somerset Clinical Area 1964–71

Ornithosis in Somerset. Experience in the South Somerset Clinical Area 1964–71

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

Cutaneous Manifestations of Systemic Infections

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