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A Bird’s-Eye View of Chronic Unilateral Conjunctivitis: Remember about Chlamydia psittaci

Chlamydia psittaci causes psittacosis in humans, mainly in people in contact with birds in either the setting of occupational or companion bird exposure. Infection is associated with a range of clinical manifestations from asymptomatic infection to severe atypical pneumonia and systemic disease. C....

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Autores principales: Vandendriessche, Stien, Rybarczyk, Joanna, Schauwvlieghe, Pieter-Paul, Accou, Geraldine, Van den Abeele, Anne-Marie, Vanrompay, Daisy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6560389/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31052181
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms7050118
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author Vandendriessche, Stien
Rybarczyk, Joanna
Schauwvlieghe, Pieter-Paul
Accou, Geraldine
Van den Abeele, Anne-Marie
Vanrompay, Daisy
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description Chlamydia psittaci causes psittacosis in humans, mainly in people in contact with birds in either the setting of occupational or companion bird exposure. Infection is associated with a range of clinical manifestations from asymptomatic infection to severe atypical pneumonia and systemic disease. C. psittaci has also been associated with ocular adnexal lymphoma in human patients. The current paper describes successful doxycycline treatment of a male patient suffering from C. psittaci chronic unilateral conjunctivitis, most probably linked to the visit of a South African wildlife reserve. Increased awareness among general and occupational physicians, ophthalmologists, clinicians, and the public on the potential of C. psittaci to cause ocular infection is needed.
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spelling pubmed-65603892019-06-17 A Bird’s-Eye View of Chronic Unilateral Conjunctivitis: Remember about Chlamydia psittaci Vandendriessche, Stien Rybarczyk, Joanna Schauwvlieghe, Pieter-Paul Accou, Geraldine Van den Abeele, Anne-Marie Vanrompay, Daisy Microorganisms Case Report Chlamydia psittaci causes psittacosis in humans, mainly in people in contact with birds in either the setting of occupational or companion bird exposure. Infection is associated with a range of clinical manifestations from asymptomatic infection to severe atypical pneumonia and systemic disease. C. psittaci has also been associated with ocular adnexal lymphoma in human patients. The current paper describes successful doxycycline treatment of a male patient suffering from C. psittaci chronic unilateral conjunctivitis, most probably linked to the visit of a South African wildlife reserve. Increased awareness among general and occupational physicians, ophthalmologists, clinicians, and the public on the potential of C. psittaci to cause ocular infection is needed. MDPI 2019-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6560389/ /pubmed/31052181 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms7050118 Text en © 2019 by the authors. 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 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Vandendriessche, Stien
Rybarczyk, Joanna
Schauwvlieghe, Pieter-Paul
Accou, Geraldine
Van den Abeele, Anne-Marie
Vanrompay, Daisy
A Bird’s-Eye View of Chronic Unilateral Conjunctivitis: Remember about Chlamydia psittaci
title A Bird’s-Eye View of Chronic Unilateral Conjunctivitis: Remember about Chlamydia psittaci
title_full A Bird’s-Eye View of Chronic Unilateral Conjunctivitis: Remember about Chlamydia psittaci
title_fullStr A Bird’s-Eye View of Chronic Unilateral Conjunctivitis: Remember about Chlamydia psittaci
title_full_unstemmed A Bird’s-Eye View of Chronic Unilateral Conjunctivitis: Remember about Chlamydia psittaci
title_short A Bird’s-Eye View of Chronic Unilateral Conjunctivitis: Remember about Chlamydia psittaci
title_sort bird’s-eye view of chronic unilateral conjunctivitis: remember about chlamydia psittaci
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6560389/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31052181
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms7050118
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