psittacosis

How To Use psittacosis In A Sentence

• He was fortunate in that she saw birds only as carriers of lice, psittacosis and other diseases and left him to go hunting them on his own. MURDER SONG
• One species, C. psittaci, causes psittacosis (so-called parrot fever), a respiratory infection transmitted from birds to people.
• In medicine (pulmonology), psittacosis — also known as parrot disease, parrot fever, and ornithosis — is a zoonotic infectious disease caused by a bacterium
• The studies on psittacosis brought home to Burnet the importance of latent infections in diseases of vertebrates as well as in bacteria, in which he had long before recognized the nature of lysogeny. The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
• Though some birds with psittacosis don't display any signs or symptoms, others lose feathers or change their eating habits.
• C. psittaci causes a rare disease called psittacosis (also known as ornithosis).
• It was presumed to be due to a virus, and as Australia's only recognized virologist, material from guinea pigs was sent down to him. 8 On histological examination of tissues from an infected mouse he noticed a "vague herringbone pattern" which recalled what he had seen in psittacosis and had read about for rickettsiae, and using Castaneda's stain he had no doubt that the organism was a rickettsia. The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
• Exposure to the dust from nesting material and dried droppings can cause psittacosis, a respiratory disorder.
• The probability that a pneumonic illness in a budgerigar owner is due to psittacosis increases when the patient says that a pet bird has recently died.
• We describe a 38-year-old man suffering from serologically confirmed psittacosis.