Clinical features of 36 cases of psittacosis.
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Clinical features of 36 cases of psittacosis experienced from 1980 to 1988 were analyzed. The following results were obtained.<BR>1) Sixteen patients were male; twenty were female. The thirty-six patients ranged in age from 29 to 76 years.<BR>2) Fifteen patients had been exposed to Parakeets prior to the onset of illness.<BR>3) High fever (94.1%) and cough (94.4%) were prominent clinival symptoms.<BR>4) The number of pneumonic foci per lung field by chest X-ray, showed the right inferior lobe was most frequently involved (45.2%). According to the nature of roentgenologicalshadows, the ground-glass-like shadow was most frequent (70.6%).<BR>5) Leucocytosis was present in only three patients. The erythrocyte sedimentationrate and C-reactive protein were high in many patients. Half of the patients had elevated serum glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase and glutamate pyruvate transaminase.<BR>6) All cases were treated with antibiotics and cured.<BR>The Incidence of psittacosis may be increasing. Therefore, it is useful for clinicians to know the clinical features of this disease. These results may be useful in early diagnosis.
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