Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, New South Wales Health Pathology, Nepean Hospital, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia.
School of Medicine, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
Intern Med J. 2020 Feb;50(2):246-249. doi: 10.1111/imj.14726.
Psittacosis is a human systemic disease caused by infection with Chlamydia psittaci. Shortly after reports emerged of a global pandemic associated with contact with imported parrots, Australian researchers including Macfarlane Burnet and others demonstrated that C. psittaci was widespread in Australian parrots. Australian cases over the last two decades have revealed that environmental exposure and contact with infected horses are also risk factors in an increasingly complicated epidemiological picture for this zoonotic disease.
鹦鹉热是一种由鹦鹉热衣原体感染引起的人类全身性疾病。在与接触进口鹦鹉有关的全球大流行的报道出现后不久，包括麦克法兰·伯内特（Macfarlane Burnet）在内的澳大利亚研究人员就证明了鹦鹉热衣原体在澳大利亚的鹦鹉中广泛存在。在过去的二十年中，澳大利亚的病例表明，暴露于环境和接触受感染的马也是这种人畜共患病日益复杂的流行病学特征中的危险因素。
