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. 1984 Jun;92(3):337–343. doi: 10.1017/s002217240006455x

An outbreak of psittacosis in a boys' boarding school.

J V Pether, N D Noah, Y K Lau, J A Taylor, J C Bowie
PMCID: PMC2129321  PMID: 6736642

Abstract

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.

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