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PubMed1984

[Zoonotic infections in persons working in plants producing meat and bone meal].

The present study has revealed that persons working at offal and bone processing plants show no specific pathology, peculiar to such plants, in the state of their health and severe mass diseases among these persons are absent. Nevertheless, rather frequent occurrence of erysipeloid should be noted. The survey of workers employed at different stages of the production process has revealed the presence of ornithosis, listeriosis and leptospirosis infections. No clinically manifest cases of these diseases have been detected. The infection of individual workers occurs in the process of production as the result of contacts with infected raw materials of animal origin. For preventing the possible spread of infection great attention should be paid to sanitary, hygienic and epidemiological measures.

Absenteeism↗
PubMed1982

[Histopathologic, ultrastructural, immunologic and virologic study of Gibert's pityriasis rosea].

A complete study of pityriasis rosea (Gibert) has been performed; this study includes: --a pathological and ultrastructural examination of the skin biopsies; --an immunological study: direct and indirect immunofluorescence (seric anti-cutaneous antibodies); --a virological investigation: ultrastructural examination of the specimens, inoculation of homogenized-skin specimens to 3 cellular cultures; --serological investigations for influenza A, B, parainfluenza 1, 2, 3, adenovirus, respiratory syncitial virus, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, ornithosis-psittacosis, Q-fever, herpes-virus, herpes-virus varicellae, cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr virus. All viral investigations had a negative result. Virus or virus-like particle has were not detected on the ultrastructural examinations. A viral infective agent cannot be incriminated as the cause of PRG. However, a large number of PRG patients had antibodies for the Epstein-Barr virus early antigen. The authors are carrying on with this particular investigation.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1983

Cell-mediated immune response to chlamydia in anterior uveitis: role of HLA B27.

The relationship between HLA B27 anterior uveitis (AU) and evidence of chlamydia trachomatis infection was investigated in 35 consecutive patients attending a uveitis research clinic, using a complement fixation test and lymphocyte transformation test to chlamydia (ornithosis-psittacosis) group antigen. A significant stimulation index (SI greater than 2) was found in 73% (11/15) of the HLA B27 positive patients compared with the HLA B27 negative AU patients and controls (P less than 0.03). There was no difference between AU patients with and without associated rheumatic disease or in terms of antibody response. The results of the present study indicate a significant relationship between the cell-mediated immune response to chlamydia group antigen and the HLA B27 positive subgroup of patients with AU.

Adult↗
PubMed1981

[Epidemiology and diagnosis of Legionella infections in Austria (author's transl)].

Out of 2,105 patients with atypical pneumonia and febrile infections 15 cases of legionellosis were diagnosed by the indirect immunofluorescent antibody test (IFA) in Austria from the middle of 1977 to the end of 1979. Among the patients with the diagnosis of atypical pneumonia Legionnaires' disease was found in 0.65%. Among those patients whose sera were examined because of suspected legionella infection the frequency was 1.96% (p less than 0.1). Therefore it may assumed that some symptoms of legionella infections may lead to the clinical diagnosis of the disease. Neither the geographical distribution of the cases nor environmental examinations nor the prevalence of antibodies gave any indication of an epidemic or hyperendemic occurrence of Legionnaires' disease in Austria. Low antibody titres to serogroup 1 of Legionella pneumophila (1:32-1:64) were found in 6.4%, higher titres (greater than or equal to 1:128) in 1.2% of all patients examined. Crossreactions of sera mainly occurred between antigens of serogroup 1 and serogroup 2. Antibodies to serogroups 3 and 4 were found seldom. According to our results crossreactivity between L. pneumophila on the one side and Mycoplasma pneumoniae or Chlamydia psittaci on the other side is of no importance and does not interfere with serological diagnosis. In serological routine examinations frequency of recent infections with L. pneumophila in patients with pneumonia was about as high as with Chlamydia psittaci or Picornavirus. To our opinion the expenditure for serological diagnosis is justified in all patients with severe pneumonia of unclear etiology as there exists the possibility of a purposive chemotherapy in legionellosis as it does in mycoplasma pneumonia or ornithosis. Moreover for quick diagnosis it should always be attempted to demonstrate the causative agent by direct immunofluorescence or by isolation.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1980

[Classical bacterial infections in the CSR].

In the CSSR Socialist Public Health has considerably restricted the existence of the so-called classical infectious diseases by the consequent introduction of effective protective vaccinations, but also by a series of further measures. By this means, however, the fight against infections has not yet been finished. New pathogens of infections are recognized, changed social conditions and modern therapeutic methods led to the occurrence of infections which were formerly not known. In detail a survey was given on presence, diagnostics and therapy of diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, scarlet fever and erysipelas, bacterial meningitides, typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever, enteritis-salmonelloses, bacterial dysentery and other diarrhoeas as well as leptospiroses, tularaemia, brucellosis and ornithosis.

Communicable Disease Control↗
PubMed1977

[Some viral zoonoses transmitted by pets (author's transl)].

Besides dogs and cats, various other animals are more or less popular as pets in the Netherlands. It is importance to the veterinary practitioner to know which diseases may be transmitted to man by these animals. Of the viral zoonoses. rabies constitutes a menace to man, in which dogs and, to a less extent, cats supply a link between man and free-living wild animals. Another viral zoonosis in which interest was centered in recent years, is lymphocytic choriomeningitis (LCM) caused by a virus which often is latent in mice but which may also be detected in young hamsters. A human disease caused by a pathogenic agent which should not be classified with the viruses, is chlamydiosis (psittacosis, ornithosis), which disease is usually transmitted to man by psittacine birds or pigeons. Of the above disease, the pathogenic agents, the clinical pictures in man and animals, the mode of transmission and possible preventive and therapeutic measures are discussed. Finally, the risk of transmission of viral zoonoses by less current "pets" is stressed.

Animals↗
PubMed1996

[Occupational environment in veterinary clinics].

In veterinary clinics many drugs and materials are handled, for instance antibiotics, disinfectants and anaesthetic gases. The staff is in close contact with various animal species and performs surgical and obstetrical operations as well as post mortem examinations. X-ray is used widely. Some investigations have indicated, that the working environment has incurred little attention. For example, X-ray equipment has been found defective and air-extraction insufficient in connection with anaesthesias. Consequently the potential for work-related health problems is obvious. The few epidemiologic investigations done indicate an increased frequency of toxic and allergic skin diseases, asthma and certain infections such as ornithosis. As general prophylaxis, better arrangement of the clinics, alterations of drug administration forms and use of gloves and other protective devices are recommended. It is concluded, that the existing knowledge about the working environment in Danish veterinary clinics is scarce, that it may imply health risks, and that further investigation of the question is needed.

Animals↗
PubMed1997

Compendium of psittacosis (chlamydiosis) control, 1997. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Infection with Chlamydia psittaci, often referred to as avian chlamydiosis (AC), is an important cause of systemic illness in companion birds (i.e., birds kept by humans as pets) and poultry. Infection can be transmitted from infected birds to humans. In humans, infection caused by C. psittaci is referred to as psittacosis, which can result in fatal pneumonia. This compendium provides information on AC (also known as psittacosis, ornithosis, and parrot fever) and psittacosis (also known as parrot disease, parrot fever, and chlamydiosis) to public health officials, veterinarians, physicians, the companion-bird industry, and others concerned with control of the disease and protection of public health. These recommendations provide effective, standardized disease control procedures for AC in companion birds and will be reviewed and revised as necessary.

Animal Feed↗
PubMed1997

Epidemic patterns and carriage of Chlamydia pneumoniae in Norway.

Chlamydia pneumoniae infection, in earlier days misdiagnosed as ornithosis, is very common in Norway. The disease develops slowly, a feature that may account for the very large number of subclinical cases, which may be seven fold more common than clinical cases. Subclinical cases produce an antibody response similar to that seen in overt clinical disease. Silent carriage of C. pneumoniae in healthy individuals may be frequent. Therapy based on positive cell culture or polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in the absence of pneumonic symptoms may be questionable. PCR has, however, given the slow development of disease, revealed itself as a handy epidemiological technique useful for the survey of healthy populations.

Carrier State↗
PubMed1976

[Tests for anthropozoonoses in sera of farmers in eastern-Austria. I. Communication (author's transl)].

Because of human disease and the evidence of antibodies in domestic- and wild animal-sera, human sera were tested for various anthropozoonoses in three districts of the so called "Seewinkel" (Eastern-Austria). Positive reactions were found for listeriosis, tularemia, leptospirosis, ornithosis, Q-fever, rickettsiae of the RMSF-group "Stamm B", mycoplasmosis, TBE-(FSME-), Sindbis-, West Nil-VIRUS. These results are indicators for the occurrence of the pathogens and are supported by the positive results already found at serological tests of domestic and wild animals.

Agricultural Workers' Diseases↗
PubMed1978

[Isolation and identification of Clamydia psittaci as the pathogen in enzootic abortion of sheep in eastern Slovakia].

Abortions in ewes occurred on a large scale in three localities in eastern Slovakia. Antibodies to the group-type ornithosis antigen were detected in titres of 1 : 128 to 1 : 2048 in the aborting ewes in the mentioned localities. Suspensions were prepared from the four samples of material, obtained either from the placentae and afterbirths of the aborting ewes or from the tissues of the aborted foetuses. Seven-day old yolk sacs of chicken embryos were infected with these suspensions. Four strains of Chlamydia psittaci were isolated and designated EPO-A2-uterus, EPO-B1 aborted foetus-lung, EPO-B2-aborted foetus-lung, EPO-B3-aborted foetus-spleen. Differential diagnosis eliminated some bacteria, toxoplasma, and parainfluenza-3 virus as possible agents responsible for the abortions.

Abortion, Veterinary↗