PEDIATRICS Vol. 15 No. 6 June 1955, pp. 752-760
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ORNITHOSIS IN INFANCY

Shimon Berman M.D.1, Emil Freundlich M.D.1, Kurt Glaser M.D.1, Abraham Abrahamov M.D.1, Erela Ephrati-Elizur Ph.D.1, and Hans Bernkopf M.D.1

1 The Department of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, and the Virus Laboratory, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.

This report deals with 6 certain and 3 possible cases of ornithosis in infants. All cases were under 2frac12 years of age; 2 of them were 1 month old.

In 5 cases a virus belonging to the psittacosis-lymphogranuloma group was isolated and the sixth case showed an eightfold rise of the antibody titer in the complement-fixation test during his illness. In other cases the diagnosis was suggested by a single positive complement-fixation test.

All these infants had manifestations of respiratory tract infection. There was a great variation in the clinical picture; 2 cases were fatal and 2 others suffered moderate to severe respiratory disease while the others had only a mild respiratory infection. In severe cases the broad spectrum antibiotics had no obvious effect upon the course of the disease.

Infected birds may have been the source of the disease but in some cases human-to-human transmission appeared possible.

Submitted on December 7, 1954
Accepted on February 1, 1955




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