Psittacosis outbreak after participation in a bird fair, Western France, December 2008

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 139, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1637-1641

  Belchior, E ^a,b   Barataud, D ^a   Ollivier, R ^a   Capek, I ^a   Laroucau, K ^c   De Barbeyrac, B ^d   Hubert, B ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE VEILLE SANITAIRE   (France)

^b InVS   (France)

^c Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

^d Centre National de Référence CNR des Chlamydiae   (France)

Author keywords

Investigation; Outbreaks; Psittacosis; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BIRD; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; MALE; ORNITHOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CHLAMYDIACEAE; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FECES; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSITTACOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ZOONOSES;

EID: 80053051053     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268811000409     Document Type: Article

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