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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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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 |
author_facet | 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/). |
spellingShingle | Case Report 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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