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Psittacosis: An Underappreciated and Often Undiagnosed Disease
The bacterial agent Chlamydia psittaci, and the resulting disease of psittacosis, is a little-known and underappreciated infectious disease by healthcare practitioners and in public health in general. C. psittaci infections can cause significant psittacosis outbreaks, with person-to-person transmiss...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10536718/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37764973 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens12091165 |
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author | Dembek, Zygmunt F. Mothershead, Jerry L. Owens, Akeisha N. Chekol, Tesema Wu, Aiguo |
author_facet | Dembek, Zygmunt F. Mothershead, Jerry L. Owens, Akeisha N. Chekol, Tesema Wu, Aiguo |
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description | The bacterial agent Chlamydia psittaci, and the resulting disease of psittacosis, is a little-known and underappreciated infectious disease by healthcare practitioners and in public health in general. C. psittaci infections can cause significant psittacosis outbreaks, with person-to-person transmission documented in the last decade. In this publication, we review the pathogen and its disease, as well as examine the potential for genetic manipulation in this organism to create a more deadly pathogen. Recent disease surveys indicate that currently, the highest incidences of human disease exist in Australia, Germany and the UK. We recommend the universal public health reporting of C. psittaci and psittacosis disease and increasing the promotion of public health awareness. |
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spelling | pubmed-105367182023-09-29 Psittacosis: An Underappreciated and Often Undiagnosed Disease Dembek, Zygmunt F. Mothershead, Jerry L. Owens, Akeisha N. Chekol, Tesema Wu, Aiguo Pathogens Review The bacterial agent Chlamydia psittaci, and the resulting disease of psittacosis, is a little-known and underappreciated infectious disease by healthcare practitioners and in public health in general. C. psittaci infections can cause significant psittacosis outbreaks, with person-to-person transmission documented in the last decade. In this publication, we review the pathogen and its disease, as well as examine the potential for genetic manipulation in this organism to create a more deadly pathogen. Recent disease surveys indicate that currently, the highest incidences of human disease exist in Australia, Germany and the UK. We recommend the universal public health reporting of C. psittaci and psittacosis disease and increasing the promotion of public health awareness. MDPI 2023-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC10536718/ /pubmed/37764973 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens12091165 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Dembek, Zygmunt F. Mothershead, Jerry L. Owens, Akeisha N. Chekol, Tesema Wu, Aiguo Psittacosis: An Underappreciated and Often Undiagnosed Disease |
title | Psittacosis: An Underappreciated and Often Undiagnosed Disease |
title_full | Psittacosis: An Underappreciated and Often Undiagnosed Disease |
title_fullStr | Psittacosis: An Underappreciated and Often Undiagnosed Disease |
title_full_unstemmed | Psittacosis: An Underappreciated and Often Undiagnosed Disease |
title_short | Psittacosis: An Underappreciated and Often Undiagnosed Disease |
title_sort | psittacosis: an underappreciated and often undiagnosed disease |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10536718/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37764973 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens12091165 |
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