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Communicable Disease Quarterly Report 3rd Qtr 2017 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Communicable disease counts from 1930 to ...

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Probable Psittacosis Outbreak Linked to Wild Birds

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2005
In autumn 2002, an outbreak of probable psittacosis occurred among residents of the Blue Mountains district, Australia. We conducted a case-control study to determine independent risk factors for psittacosis by comparing exposures between hospitalized ...
Barbara L. Telfer   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

What's in a word: the use, misuse, and abuse of the word “persistence” in Chlamydia biology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The word persistence was used by Chlamydia researchers almost as soon as Chlamydia research was born to reflect the propensity of chlamydiae to cause inapparent infection in their hosts, from birds to humans.
Patrik M. Bavoil
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Acrocyanosis: The Least Known Acrosyndrome Revisited With a Dermatologic Perspective

open access: yesDermatology Research and Practice, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
Background: Acrocyanosis is a functional peripheral vascular disorder, currently categorized under the canopy of acrosyndromes, i.e., a group of clinically similar and significantly overlapping vascular disorders involving the acral skin. The disorder might be primary or secondary, depending on the cause.
Deniz Demircioğlu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identificación de Chlamydophila psittaci en aves psitácidas del hogar de paso de fauna silvestre “La María”, Pereira [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Las psitácidas son una familia de aves de características morfológicas específicas, que abarcan un gran número de especies distribuidas en su mayor parte en América; la psitacosis es una enfermedad infectocontagiosa que este tipo de aves padecen, es ...
Rivera Osorio, Sebastián
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Rene Dubos, tuberculosis, and the "ecological facets of virulence" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Reflecting on his scientific career toward the end of his life, the French-educated medical researcher René Dubos presented his flowering as an ecological thinker as a story of linear progression—the inevitable product of the intellectual seeds planted ...
Honigsbaum, M.
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Two Outbreaks of Pigeon Paramyxovirus 1 With High Mortality in Captive Pigeons (Columbia livia) in Denmark, 2022–2023

open access: yesTransboundary and Emerging Diseases, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
This study describes the first outbreaks with virulent avian paramyxovirus 1 (APMV‐1) since 2005 in Denmark. Both outbreaks were caused by pigeon specific variants, denoted pigeon paramyxovirus 1 (PPMV‐1). The first outbreak was in June 2022 and affected captive pigeons near Næstved, in southeast Denmark, where 1053 captive birds were housed, and ...
Karen Martiny   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Zoonotic atypical pneumonia due to Chlamydophila psittaci: First reported psittacosis case in Taiwan

open access: yesJournal of the Formosan Medical Association, 2013
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.
Yu-Jen Cheng   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of polymorphic membrane protein expression in cultured cells Identifies PmpA and PmpH of Chlamydia psittaci as candidate factors in pathogenesis and immunity to infection [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The polymorphic membrane protein (Pmp) paralogous families of Chlamydia trachomatis, Chlamydia pneumoniae and Chlamydia abortus are putative targets for Chlamydia vaccine development. To determine whether this is also the case for Pmp family members of C.
Bavoil, Patrik   +7 more
core   +2 more sources

Isolation and Molecular Detection of Pigeonpox Virus in a Pigeon With Both Cutaneous and Diphtheritic Forms of Pigeon Pox Disease in Ghana

open access: yesVeterinary Medicine International, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
Unlike fowl pox, pigeon pox virus (PPV) has not been described in Ghana. This is the first report of the disease and virus in Ghana based on gross necropsy, histopathological analysis, and molecular techniques. This index case was presented as the occurrence of both cutaneous (dry) and diphtheritic (wet) forms of the pigeon pox disease in a 5‐month‐old
Richard Kwamena Abbiw   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

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