In message <324A9C8A.DEC at infect.dmed.iupui.edu> - "Diane R.
Stothard" <dianes at infect.dmed.iupui.edu>Thu, 26 Sep 1996 10:08:58
-0500 writes:
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]'Gavia immer' Deborah Wisti-Peterson wrote:
]>
]> how is chlamydia psittaci diagnosed in humans? how is
]> it diagnosed in humans that have been exposed to this
]> organism but are asymptomatic?
]>
]> thanks for your responses.
]>
]> --
]> Deborah Wisti-Peterson email:nyneve at u.washington.edu
]> Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash, USA
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]
]Chlamydia psittaci is not a human pathogen. It infects birds and other
]animals. Chlamydial human pathogens include C. trachomatis which causes
]trachoma and is the agent of the sexually transmitted disease, and C.
]pneumoniae.
I guess (with synicism) that's why there "was" once a disease
called psittcosis. Yes....... very transmissible with multiple
exposures with people with the infected birds....almost reminds
one of TB.
Maybe.....similar etiologies.....similar morphologies...hmmmmmmm
