Chlamydia psittaci in fulmars on the Faroe Islands: a causative link to South American psittacines eight decades after a severe epidemic.

Abstract:

:A psittacosis epidemic linked to fulmar hunting occurred on the Faroe Islands in the 1930s. This study investigates a plausible explanation to the 20% human mortality in this outbreak. Phylogenetic analysis showed that Chlamydia psittaci isolated from fulmars were closely related to the highly virulent 6BC strains from psittacines and are compatible with an acquisition by fulmars of an ancestor of the 6BC clade in the 1930s. This supports the hypothesis that the outbreak on the Faroe Islands started after naïve fulmars acquired C. psittaci from infected dead parrots thrown overboard when shipped to Europe in the 1930s.

journal_name

Microbes Infect

journal_title

Microbes and infection

authors

Wang H,Jensen JK,Olsson A,Vorimore F,Aaziz R,Guy L,Ellström P,Laroucau K,Herrmann B

doi

10.1016/j.micinf.2020.02.007

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-09-01 00:00:00

pages

356-359

issue

8

eissn

1286-4579

issn

1769-714X

pii

S1286-4579(20)30035-6

journal_volume

22

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