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2012, Biological ConservationCitation Excerpt :However, hundreds of people die in the US annually from salmonellosis, and toxoplamosis can cause permanent brain and eye damage (Weber, 1979). Psittacosis is another disease caused by pigeons, with mortality as high as 20% in untreated cases (Martinov et al., 1997) and in treated persons, serious complications can still occur, including pneumonia, hepatitis, arthritis, encephalitis, and fetal death (Williams, 1989; Gherman et al., 1995). The risk of pigeons transmitting diseases to people may be higher in the Galápagos than elsewhere due to several social and environmental factors.
Psittacosis
2011, Tropical Infectious Diseases: Principles, Pathogens and PracticePneumonia Complicating Pregnancy
2011, Clinics in Chest MedicineCitation Excerpt :Atypical pathogens are not identified by routine cultures of sputum, yet are common causes of pneumonia in the nonpregnant patient. As described in numerous case reports and selected limited series, CAP in pregnancy may be caused by mumps, infectious mononucleosis, swine influenza, influenza A, including the novel H1N1 virus, Staphylococcus aureus (including methicillin-resistant forms), legionella, varicella, Chlamydophila pneumoniae, coccidioidomycosis, and other fungal pneumonias.3,15,20–26 Whether infection with any of these agents is more common in pregnancy than in the nonpregnant state is unknown, but certain pathogens represent a greater hazard to the pregnant woman, because of her physiologic defects in cell-mediated immunity.
Psittacosis
2011, Tropical Infectious DiseasesPsittacosis
2010, Infectious Disease Clinics of North AmericaCitation Excerpt :Although macrolides are a reasonable and recommended therapeutic option in pregnant women with psittacosis, successful treatment with carriage of the fetus to full term has not been documented. Both patients discussed previously with gestational psittacosis following exposure to psittacine birds were treated initially with intravenous erythromycin.76,77 Neither responded satisfactorily to erythromycin alone, with disease progression until pregnancy was ended, by caesarian section with delivery of a healthy infant in one case and termination of pregnancy in the other.