A Rare Bird: Diagnosis of Psittacosis Meningitis by Clinical Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing.
Kusha DavarM R WilsonS MillerC Y ChiuT VijayanPublished in: Open forum infectious diseases (2021)
Psittacosis is a zoonotic infectious disease caused by the transmission of Chlamydia psittaci ; it often presents as a pulmonary infection but rarely as disseminated disease. Because diagnoses of psittacosis are often underreported due to infrequent pathogen-specific testing, clinical metagenomic next-generation sequencing may be helpful to diagnose such an uncommon syndrome.