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ornithosis

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ornithosis /or·ni·tho·sis/ (or?ni-tho´sis) psittacosis.
or·ni·tho·sis (ôrn-thss)
n.
A disease of birds caused by Chlamydia psittaci and contracted by humans through contact with infected birds.
ornithosis
a systemic, contagious disease of nonpsittacine birds including domestic poultry, transmissible to humans, caused by Chlamydophila psittaci. The avian disease is called also chlamydiosis. In psittacine birds and humans the same disease is called psittacosis.
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