Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of psittacosis among cases with complicated or atypical pulmonary infection using metagenomic next-generation sequencing: a multi-center observational study in China

• Main Authors: Weifeng Huang (Author), Fengge Wang (Author), Qingqing Cai (Author), Huiliang Xu (Author), Dengwei Hong (Author), Han Wu (Author), Lu Zhou (Author), Linjie Hu (Author), Yihan Lu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Chlamydia psittaci (C. psittaci) causes parrot fever in humans. Development of metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) enables the identification of C. psittaci. Methods This study aimed to determine the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of parrot fever cases in...