Ornithosis

Ornithosis definition, causes, symptoms and treatment

Ornithosis - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
Definition
Ornithosis is defined as an infectious disease affecting many species of birds worldwide such as parrots, macaws, cockatiels, parakeets, pigeons, sparrows, ducks, chickens, parrots and seagulls etc. usually transmitted to humans through birds, in particular, or as a parrot, birds. It can also be moved to other mammals. Ornithosis is also known as parrot fever, parrot disease psittacosis. He is recognized as an infectious zoonosis produced by the bacterium Chlamydia psittaci.
This disease appears in the hole world especially those associated with occupational exposure to birds such as poultry, which is transmitted to humans from birds. This infectious disease is characterized by ornithosis pneumonia and systemic symptoms (throughout the body). It is sometimes applied to infections of birds other than birds include parrots, macaws, parakeets.

Causes ornithosis is a contagious disease origin by chlamydia and can be spread among birds, animals and humans. The bacterium Chlamydia psittaci are discharged into the lacrimal fluid, faeces, beak and throat mucus and milk cultures. Sometimes, the transmission is through direct interaction or close contact with infected secretions or body tissues, such as laboratory personnel who work with birds. The transmission from person to person is rare, but usually results ornithosis critical.
Birds infected with ornithosis become carriers and discharge of the pathogen. The birds contract the disease by inhaling dust to have the pathogen by ingesting contaminated food or water and by billing or feed their young.
The infection may moved to the upper respiratory tract. nasal catarrh seems a milky yellow liquid can extract nostrils, then dry and clog. Inflammation produces itching and pain, the pigeon will try to scrape.
Symptoms
The incubation period in humans is 5-14 days and symptoms of the disease occurs at a systemic illness with severe pneumonia. Symptoms in humans include are rash, mild fever, headache and often pneumonia. But in birds, symptoms arise such as poor appetite, ruffled appearance, eye or nose discharge and diarrhea.
Ornithosis occurs in 2 ways:

• The acute ornithosis can occur in young pigeons wheezing noises, unilateral or bilateral conjunctivitis and enteritis muco-aqueous diarrhea.

• The chronic ornithosis is often developed in adult birds, which, however, show little or no symptoms of infection.

There are some symptoms of ornithosis below are:

• Pain in the muscle


• Fever


• Chills


• Headache


• Fatigue


• Cough (dry)


• respiratory disorder


• Blood tinged sputum

In some complex situations encephalitis, endocarditis, hepatitis, myocarditis, arthritis and keratoconjunctivitis may sometimes occur.
Treatments
Tetracycline, an antibiotic is often recommended to treat ornithosis in humans and birds.
If the patient can not tolerate tetracycline, penicillin G procaine or chloramphenicol is recommended as an alternative.
Chlortetracycline is also used for many years to ebb as it is a good drug to treat ornithosis.
There are many products available on the market to mitigate the ornithosis, drugs that are commonly used to treat ornithosis with antibiotics such as doxycycline, erythromycin and azith.