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Chlamydia psittaci in birds is often systemic, and infections can be inapparent, severe, acute, or chronic with intermittent shedding. [2] [3] [4] C. psittaci strains in birds infect mucosal epithelial cells and macrophages of the respiratory tract.
Psittacosis—also known as parrot fever, and ornithosis—is a zoonotic infectious disease in humans caused by a bacterium called Chlamydia psittaci and contracted from infected parrots, such as macaws, cockatiels, and budgerigars, and from pigeons, sparrows, ducks, hens, gulls and many other species of birds.
By the 2010s this reclassification "was not wholly accepted or adopted" [8] among microbiologists, which "resulted in a reversion to the single, original genus Chlamydia, which now encompasses all 9 species including Chlamydia psittaci." [8] As of 2013, Chlamydophila was still mentioned in some databases, but controversial. [9]
Chlamydia abortus is a species in Chlamydiota that causes abortion and fetal death in mammals, including humans. Chlamydia abortus was renamed in 1999 as Chlamydophila psittaci along with all Chlamydiota except Chlamydia trachomatis. This was based on a lack of evident glycogen production and on resistance to the antibiotic sulfadiazine.
Bird flu can be transmitted from birds to humans if they come in close contact with infected animals. According to experts, infected birds shed flu viruses in their saliva, mucous, and feces.
A US farmworker who caught bird flu after working with dairy cattle in Texas appears to be the first known case of mammal-to-human transmission of the virus, a new study shows.
Chlamydia is a genus of pathogenic Gram-negative bacteria that are obligate intracellular parasites. Chlamydia infections are the most common bacterial sexually transmitted diseases in humans and are the leading cause of infectious blindness worldwide.
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