| 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 |
| a 5-year retrospective review of avian diseases diagnosed at the department of pathology, university of georgia. | avian samples (n = 827) submitted to the university of georgia from 2006 to 2011 were reviewed to determine common disease entities and taxa-specific patterns. the study included 153 species, with 64.5% psittaciformes, 11.3% passeriformes, 7.9% galliformes, 3.8% columbiformes and 3.5% anseriformes. infectious agents were identified in 226 birds (27.3%); bacterial infections (n = 119; 14.4%) were most commonly gram-negative bacilli and chlamydia psittaci and less commonly mycoplasma and mycobacte ... | 2016 | 27329003 |