noun. An infectious disease of parrots and related birds caused by the bacterium Chlamydia psittaci, that is communicable to humans, in whom it produces high fever, severe headache, and symptoms similar to pneumonia.

noun. An infectious influenza-like disease of parrots, which may be transmitted to man in the form of disease of the lungs.

noun. An infection by Chlamydia bacteria, caught from infected birds, and characterised by fever, pneumonia and headaches.

noun. infectious disease of birds

noun. an atypical pneumonia caused by a rickettsia microorganism and transmitted to humans from infected birds

"It was presumed to be due to a virus, and as Australia's only recognized virologist, material from guinea pigs was sent down to him. 8 On histological examination of tissues from an infected mouse he noticed a "vague herringbone pattern" which recalled what he had seen in psittacosis and had read about for rickettsiae, and using Castaneda's stain he had no doubt that the organism was a rickettsia."

psittacotic  

animal disease  atypical pneumonia  mycoplasmal pneumonia  primary atypical pneumonia  

ornithosis  parrot disease  parrot fever