title: Chlamydophila psittaci infections in The Netherlands.
abstract: Psittacosis, caused by Chlamydophila psittaci, is a well described but sporadically occurring clinical entity, which mainly presents as community-acquired pneumonia. Diagnosis used to be relatively difficult. However, new molecular techniques, such as real-time polymerase chain reaction, increased detection of cases. Furthermore, genotyping of the ompA gene can be used as a tool to trace the possible source of an outbreak or to link a specific bird to a particular patient.
authors.affiliation: Academic Medical Center, Center for Infection and Immunity, Department of Medical Microbiology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. y.pannekoek@amc.uva.nl
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Pannekoek
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Visser
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Duim
authors.forename: E R
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Heddema
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D001717:Birds / Q000382:microbiology; D002691:Chlamydophila psittaci / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009426:Netherlands / Q000453:epidemiology; D009956:Psittacosis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D011634:Public Health