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chlamydiosis

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chlamydiosis /chla·myd·i·o·sis/ (klah-mid″e-o´sis) any infection or disease caused by Chlamydia.
chla·myd·i·o·sis (kl-md-ss)
n.
Any of the diseases that are caused by Chlamydia psittaci and C. trachomatis.

Chlamydiosis, psittacosis, or ornithosis
Other names for parrot fever in humans.
Mentioned in: Parrot Fever

chlamydiosis [klah-mid″e-o´sis]
any infection or disease caused by Chlamydia.

chlamydiosis
any disease or infection caused by members of the family Chlamydiaceae; takes many forms including: psittacosis and ornithosis in birds, placentopathy manifested by abortion in enzootic abortion of ewes, sporadic bovine encephalomyelitis, pneumonitis in all species except pig, conjunctivitis in sheep, cats and laboratory rodents, polyarthritis in sheep, cattle, horse, enteritis in cattle and lagomorphs, and septicemia in epizootic chlamydiosis in lagomorphs.


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Sam) lost her fight for life today after undergoing life-saving surgery to remove cysts associated with the debilitating urogenital chlamydiosis, which affects 50 percent of the koala population," Elkhorne said.
Potential problems can be caused by chlamydiosis (enzootic abortion of ewes - EAE), toxoplasmosis and listeriosis, which are common causes of abortion in ewes, and Q fever.
 
 
 
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