4) C. pecorum: A non-human species found primarily among ruminant animals
(cattle and others).Fortunately, chlamydial infections respond to several groups of antibiotics including
tetracyclines and macrolides (erythromycin and similar) but not to sulfonamides. For this
reason, although they are debilitating, uncomfortable and inconvenient, they present
lesser dangers than when Armstrong and colleagues were employed on their initial
groundbreaking efforts to elucidate the nature of these threatening pathogens. For current
information about psittacosis and chlamydia, the reader may consult the most recent
editions of Cecil’s Textbook of Medicine and Mandell, et al., Principles and Practice of
Infectious Diseases.
Notes – Psittacosis
- Armstrong, C., and Lillie, R. D.: Vaccine virus pneumonia in rabbits. Public
Health Reports 44: 2635-2647, November 1, 1929. - Lillie, R. D., and Armstrong, C.: The pathology of generalized vaccinia in rabbits.
National Institute of Health Bulletin No. 156, 1930. - Armstrong, C.: Postvaccinal encephalitis. Public Health Reports 44:2041-2044,
August 23, 1929. - Williams, R. C., Ibid, p. 216.
- William, R. C., Ibid, p. 99, 100.
- Furman, Bess. : A Profile of the United States Public Health Service 1798-1948 in
consultation with Ralph C. Williams, M.D., author of The United States Public