| chlamydia psittaci infection in companion birds examined in florida. | over a two-year period, companion birds, submitted mostly by small-animal practitioners to the animal disease diagnostic laboratory, kissimmee, florida, were examined for chlamydia. chick embryo yolk sac and mouse brain inoculations were used for isolation. chlamydiae were isolated in 58 (20%) of 287 birds examined. although twice as many birds were examined in 1980 as in 1979, the percentage of positive isolations was 20% for each year. this suggests a constant level of chlamydial infection in ... | 1982 | 7092742 |
| detection of chlamydiosis in a shipment of pet birds, leading to recognition of an outbreak of clinically mild psittacosis in humans. | avian chlamydiosis was detected in a shipment of > 700 pet birds from a florida bird distributor that were sold to nine atlanta-area pet stores in august 1995. respiratory illness among persons who had recently acquired birds from this shipment was reported to local public health officials. the attack rate of acute respiratory illness was 10.7% among persons in households exposed to birds from the implicated flock vs. 1.8% among control households (odds ratio, 6.60; 95% confidence interval, 1.39 ... | 1998 | 9636874 |
| ocular adnexal lymphoma: no evidence for bacterial dna associated with lymphoma pathogenesis. | ocular adnexal lymphomas (oals) are the most common tumors of the eye, the majority being extranodal mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (malt) lymphomas. association with chlamydia psittaci was described in some geographic areas. oal response to antibiotic therapy was reported in cases not harboring chlamydia psittaci dna, suggesting that other bacterial infection might be implicated in the pathogenesis. we examined 49 malt oals for bacterial dna using two distinct polymerase chain reaction techn ... | 2008 | 18492114 |