A novel psittacine adenovirus identified during an outbreak of avian chlamydiosis and human psittacosis: zoonosis associated with virus-bacterium coinfection in birds.

• Egile Nagusiak: Kelvin K W To (Egilea), Herman Tse (Egilea), Wan-Mui Chan (Egilea), Garnet K Y Choi (Egilea), Anna J X Zhang (Egilea), Siddharth Sridhar (Egilea), Sally C Y Wong (Egilea), Jasper F W Chan (Egilea), Andy S F Chan (Egilea), Patrick C Y Woo (Egilea), Susanna K P Lau (Egilea), Janice Y C Lo (Egilea), Kwok-Hung Chan (Egilea), Vincent C C Cheng (Egilea), Kwok-Yung Yuen (Egilea)
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• Argitaratua: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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Chlamydophila psittaci is found worldwide, but is particularly common among psittacine birds in tropical and subtropical regions. While investigating a human psittacosis outbreak that was associated with avian chlamydiosis in Hong Kong, we identified a novel adenovirus in epidemiologically linked Me...