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A Case Report of Chlamydia psittaci Infective Endocarditis Complicated With Pneumonia

open access: yesCase Reports in Infectious Diseases, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
Psittacosis is a zoonotic disease caused by Chlamydia psittaci and is commonly found in birds and poultry. Human infection is uncommon, and most cases are sporadic. Infection of extrapulmonary organs by Chlamydia psittaci is extremely rare. A rare case of infective endocarditis complicated by pneumonia caused by Chlamydia psittaci was reported, which ...
Dongmei Zhao   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unusual fatal avian polyomavirus infection in nestling cockatiels (Nymphicus hollandicus) detected by nested polymerase chain reaction

open access: yesVeterinární Medicína, 2007
High mortality of nestling cockatiels (Nymphicus hollandicus) was observed in one breeding flock in Slovakia. The nestling mortality affected 50% of all breeding pairs. In general, all the nestlings in affected nests died.
O. Tomasek, O. Kubicek, V. Tukac
doaj   +1 more source

Siblings in the ICU: Keeping Endemic Mycoses on the Differential

open access: yesCase Reports in Pediatrics, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
Blastomycosis is a rare fungal infection caused by the inhalation of Blastomyces dermatitidis spores. Infection with this fungus can impact nearly every organ system, though pulmonary disease is the most common. Presentations of pulmonary blastomycosis are highly variable, ranging from clinically asymptomatic to severe respiratory failure requiring ...
Meaghan Reaney   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of the persistence and gene expression of an anti-Chlamydophila psittaci DNA vaccine in turkey muscle

open access: yesBMC Veterinary Research, 2006
Background DNA vaccination has been shown to elicit specific cellular and humoral immune responses to many different agents in a broad variety of species.
Vanrompay Daisy   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The widespread keeping of wild pets in the Neotropics: An overlooked risk for human, livestock and wildlife health

open access: yesPeople and Nature, Volume 6, Issue 3, Page 1023-1035, June 2024.
Abstract Zoonoses constitute a major risk to human health. Comprehensive assessments on the potential emergence of novel disease outbreaks are essential to ensure the effectiveness of sanitary controls and to establish mitigating actions. Through a continental‐scale survey of rural human settlements conducted over 13 years in 15 Neotropical countries ...
Pedro Romero‐Vidal   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

EFFECT OF THE MEDICINAL PLANT (AZADIRACHTA INDICA) ON Chlamydophila psittaci INFECTION IN BROILER CHICKENS

open access: yesSlovenian Veterinary Research, 2018
Chlamydophila psittaci is considered one of the important bacterial agents which affecting poultry with zoonotic importance to human health. This study designed to investigate the antibacterial action of aqueous neem leaves extract (Azadirachta indica ...
Ahmed M. Hegazy   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pulmonary superinfection diagnosed with bronchoalveolar lavage at intubation in COVID patients: A Swedish single‐centre study

open access: yesActa Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, Volume 68, Issue 4, Page 512-519, April 2024.
Abstract Background Patients with severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID) pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome (C‐ARDS) on invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) have been found to be prone to having other microbial findings than severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐2)‐CoV‐19 in the bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid at ...
Fredrik Hammarskjöld   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Zoonotic disease classification in wildlife: a theoretical framework for researchers

open access: yesMammal Review, Volume 54, Issue 1, Page 63-77, January 2024.
Classification systems are useful tools for aggregating diseases to study them in more detail. However, the current systems are mainly designed for use in health care and fail to capture many details of zoonotic diseases. The goal of this study was to develop a framework for the classification of zoonotic diseases which can generate data useful to ...
Sarah Keenan   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Case of Keratoconjunctivitis Caused by Chlamydophila Psittaci

open access: yesJournal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society, 2010
Purpose: Only a few cases of keratoconjunctivitis caused by Chlamydophila psittaci have been reported worldwide, and no case reported in Korea. We report an atypical case of keratoconjunctivitis caused by Chlamydophila psittaci. Case summary: A 34-year-old male patient who had raised a parrot at home presented with three weeks of conjunctival injection
Yun Jeong Choi, Roo Min Jun
openaire   +1 more source

Centralised Air Sampling From a Ventilation System for the Surveillance of Respiratory Pathogens

open access: yesIndoor Air, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024.
Background: The COVID‐19 pandemic has triggered a renewed interest in indoor air sampling for infectious disease surveillance. However, scalability is currently limited, as samples are usually collected in a single indoor space. An alternative is to place the device within a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system (HVAC), but this approach ...
Michiel Happaerts   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

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