Pether J V, Noah N D, Lau Y K, Taylor J A, Bowie J C
J Hyg (Lond). 1984 Jun;92(3):337-43. doi: 10.1017/s002217240006455x.
In 1980, an outbreak of a mild illness involving twenty pupils and four adults in a boys' boarding school was identified serologically as psittacosis. Intensive epidemiological investigations did not uncover the source. It is suggested either that sources of chlamydia other than avian exist, which may produce a milder illness than the avian type, or that human-to-human spread of a mild form of chlamydiosis occurs.
1980年,一所男子寄宿学校爆发了一场涉及20名学生和4名成年人的轻微疾病,经血清学鉴定为鹦鹉热。深入的流行病学调查未发现病源。有人提出,可能存在禽类以外的衣原体来源,它们可能引发比禽类类型更轻微的疾病,或者衣原体病的轻微形式会在人与人之间传播。