Detection of chlamydiosis in a shipment of pet birds, leading to recognition of an outbreak of clinically mild psittacosis in humans

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1425-1429

  Moroney, John F ^a   Guevara, Ramon ^b   Iverson, Christopher ^b   Chen, Frederick M ^b   Skelton, Stephen K ^b   Messmer, Trudy O ^b   Plikaytis, Brian ^b   Williams, Paul O ^b   Blake, Paul ^b   Butler, Jay C ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; CHLAMYDIASIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORNITHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 17344365211     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/516368     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Schachter J, Dawson CR. Psittacosis. Human chlamydial infections. Littleton, Massachusetts: PSG Publishing Co., 1978.
2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Psittacosis surveillance, 1975-1984. Atlanta: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1987.
3. Newman CP, Palmer SR, Kirby FD, Caul EO. A prolonged outbreak of ornithosis in duck processors. Epidemiol Infect 1992; 108:203-10.
4. Hedberg K, White KE, Forfang JC, et al. An outbreak of psittacosis in Minnesota turkey industry workers: implications for modes of transmission and control. Am J Epidemiol 1989; 130:569-77.
5. Palmer SR, Andrews BE, Major R. A common-source outbreaks of ornithosis in veterinary surgeons. Lancet 1981;2:798-9.
6. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Psittacosis at a turkey processing plant - North Carolina, 1989. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 1990;39:460-1.
7. Schlossberg D, Delgado J, Moore MM, Wishner A, Mohn J. An epidemic of avian and human psittacosis. Arch Intern Med 1993; 153:2594-6.
8. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Human psittacosis linked to a bird distributor in Mississippi - Massachusetts and Tennessee, 1992. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 1992;41:794-7.
9. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Compendium of psittacosis (chlamydiosis) control, 1997. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 1997; 46(RR-13).
10. Bird Dealer Licensing Act. 1981; Title 4, Chapter 40-13-12. Georgia Annotated Code.
11. Wong KH, Skelton SK, Daugharty H. Utility of complement fixation and microimmunofiuorescence assays for detecting serologic responses in patients with clinically diagnosed psittacosis. J Clin Microbiol 1994; 32:2417-21.
12. Marston BJ, Plouffe JF, File TM, et al. Incidence of community-acquired pneumonia requiring hospitalization: results of a population-based active surveillance study in Ohio. Arch Intern Med 1997; 157:1709-18.
13. Wong KH, Skelton SK, Chan YK. Efficient culture of Chlamydia pncumoniae with cell lines derived from the human respiratory tract. J Clin Microbiol 1992;30:1625-30.
14. Messmer TO, Skelton SK, Moroney JF, Daugharty H, Fields BS. Application of a nested, multiplex PCR to psittacosis outbreaks. J Clin Microbiol 1997;35:2043-6.
15. Diggle PJ, Liang KY, Zeger SL. Analysis of longitudinal data. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994:175-83.
16. Breslow N. Use of logistic and related models in longitudinal studies of chronic disease risk. Application: coronary heart disease mortality in Framingham. In: Dwyer JH, Feinleib M, Lippert P, Hoffmeister H, eds. Statistical models for longitudinal studies of health. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992:163-97.
17. Crosse BA. Psittacosis: a clinical review. J Infect 1990; 21:251-9.
18. Peeling RW, Brunham RC. Chlamydiae as pathogens: new species and new issues. Emerg Infect Dis 1996;2:307-19.
19. Schaffner W, Drutz DJ, Duncan GW, Koenig MG. The clinical spectrum of endemic psittacosis. Arch Intern Med 1967; 119:433-43.
20. Yung AP, Grayson ML. Psittacosis - a review of 135 cases. Med J Aust 1988; 148:228-33.
21. Verweij PE, Meis JFGM, Eijk R, Melchers WJ, Galama JMD. Severe human psittacosis requiring artificial ventilation: case report and review. Clin Infect Dis 1995; 20:440-2.
22. Byrom NP, Walls J, Mair HJ. Fulminant psittacosis. Lancet 1979;1: 353-6.
23. Anderson AA, Tappe JP. Genetic, immunologic, and pathologic characterization of avian chlamydial strains. J Am Vet Med Assoc 1989; 195: 1512-6.
24. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Summary of notifiable diseases, United States, 1995. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 1996; 44(53):8.
25. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Case definitions for infectious conditions under public health surveillance. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 1997;46(RR-10).
26. Pether JV, Wang SP, Grayston JT. Chlamydia pneumoniae, strain TWAR, as the cause of an outbreak in a boys' school previously called psittacosis. Epidemiol Infect 1989; 103:395-400.
27. Grayston JT, Kuo CC, Wang SP, Altman J. A new Chlamydia psittaci strain, TWAR, isolated in acute respiratory tract infections. N Engl J Med 1986;315:161-8.
28. Meyer KF, Eddie B. Influence of tetracycline compounds on the development of antibodies in psittacosis. American Review of Tuberculosis and Pulmonary Diseases 1956; 74:566-71.
29. Tong CY, Sillis M. Detection of Chlamydia pneumoniae and Chlamydia psittaci in sputum samples by PCR. J Clin Pathol 1993;46:313-7.
30. Oldach DW, Gaydos CA, Mundy LM, Quinn TC. Rapid diagnosis of Chlamydia psittaci pneumonia. Clin Infect Dis 1993; 17:338-43.