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Multiple human-to-human transmission from a severe case of psittacosis, Sweden, January–February 2013
- Source :
- Eurosurveillance. 19
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC), 2014.
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Abstract
- Proven transmission of Chlamydia psittaci between humans has been described on only one occasion previously. We describe an outbreak which occurred in Sweden in early 2013, where the epidemiological and serological investigation suggests that one patient, severely ill with psittacosis after exposure to wild bird droppings, transmitted the disease to ten others: Two family members, one hospital roommate and seven hospital caregivers. Three cases also provided respiratory samples that could be analysed by PCR. All the obtained C. psittaci sequences were indistinguishable and clustered within genotype A. The finding has implications for the management of severely ill patients with atypical pneumonia, because these patients may be more contagious than was previously thought. In order to prevent nosocomial person-to-person transmission of C. psittaci, stricter hygiene measures may need to be applied.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Pediatrics
Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional
Epidemiology
Animals, Wild
Disease
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Psittacosis
Disease Outbreaks
Serology
Birds
Zoonoses
Virology
Disease Transmission, Infectious
medicine
Animals
Humans
Aged
Disease Reservoirs
Sweden
Chlamydia psittaci
biology
Bird Diseases
Transmission (medicine)
business.industry
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Outbreak
biology.organism_classification
medicine.disease
Chlamydophila psittaci
Atypical pneumonia
Contact Tracing
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15607917
- Volume :
- 19
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Eurosurveillance
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....2eb57e74f622b578f05a10cff7ec5973
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.es2014.19.42.20937