Distribution of drug-resistant genes in alveolar lavage fluid from patients with psittacosis and traceability analysis of causative organisms

H Lu, J Yuan, Z Wu, L Wang, S Wu, Q Chen… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Chlamydia psittaci is a small bacterium often found in birds, including poultry,
and domesticated mammals, which causes psittacosis (or parrot fever) in humans. Different …

Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of psittacosis among cases with complicated or atypical pulmonary infection using metagenomic next-generation …

W Huang, F Wang, Q Cai, H Xu, D Hong, H Wu… - Annals of Clinical …, 2023 - Springer
Background Chlamydia psittaci (C. psittaci) causes parrot fever in humans. Development of
metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) enables the identification of C. psittaci …

Metagenomic surveillance and comparative genomic analysis of Chlamydia psittaci in patients with pneumonia

W Huang, S Hu, Y Zhu, S Liu, X Zhou, Y Fang… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Chlamydia psittaci, a strictly intracellular bacterium, is an underestimated etiologic agent
leading to infections in a broad range of animals and mild illness or pneumonia in humans …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical metagenomic sequencing for rapid diagnosis of pneumonia and meningitis caused by Chlamydia psittaci

XW Yin, ZD Mao, Q Zhang, QX Ou, J Liu… - World Journal of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
BACKGROUND Chlamydia psittaci (C. psittaci) is a gram-negative intracellular parasitic
pathogenic bacterium that can infect avian and mammalian hosts, including humans. The …

Case report: Clinical characteristics of two cases of pneumonia caused with different strains of Chlamydia psittaci

Z Wang, C Chen, H Lu, L Wang, L Gao… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background With the development of metagenomic sequencing technologies, more and
more cases of pneumonia caused with Chlamydia psittaci (C. psittaci) have been reported …

Case Report: Metagenomic next-generation sequencing applied in diagnosing psittacosis caused by Chlamydia psittaci infection

W Xu, Q Wang, L Li, B Zhu, Q Cai, X Yi… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Chlamydia psittaci is the causative agent of psittacosis in humans, while its
rapid identification is hampered due to the lack of specificity of laboratory testing methods …

Metagenomic diagnosis of severe psittacosis using multiple sequencing platforms

K Wang, X Liu, H Liu, P Li, Y Lin, D Yin, L Yang, J Li… - BMC genomics, 2021 - Springer
Background Chlamydia psittaci is an avian pathogen that can cause lethal human infections.
Diagnosis of C. psittaci pneumonia is often delayed due to nonspecific clinical presentations …

Whole-genome sequences of Chlamydia psittaci strain HJ, isolated from meat pigeons with severe respiratory distress and high mortality

Q Zhang, Z Wu, R Sun, J Chu, E Han… - Genome …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
The obligate intracellular Gram-negative bacterium Chlamydia psittaci causes systemic
disease in psittacine birds, domestic poultry, and wild fowl. Importantly, C. psittaci may cause …

Application of metagenomic next-generation sequencing in the diagnosis of severe pneumonia caused by Chlamydia psittaci

H Wu, L Feng, S Fang - BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2021 - Springer
Purpose Psittacosis is a zoonotic infectious disease caused by the transmission of the
bacterium Chlamydia psittaci (C. psittaci) from birds to humans. Infections in humans mainly …

Severe community-acquired pneumonia caused by Chlamydia psittaci genotype E/B strain circulating among geese in Lishui city, Zhejiang province, China

XC Qin, J Huang, Z Yang, X Sun, W Wang… - Emerging Microbes & …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Between November 2021 and January 2022, four patients of community-
acquired pneumonia were admitted to the hospitals in Lishui city, Zhejiang province, China …