An outbreak of psittacosis in a boys' boarding school.
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.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis; D002691:Chlamydophila psittaci / Q000276:immunology; D003168:Complement Fixation Tests; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D004739:England; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009956:Psittacosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000276:immunology; D012574:Schools
D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial