Psittacosis, a rare disease, has been under diagnosed or misdiagnosed during the pandemic, likely because the symptoms of the disease are similar to COVID symptoms.
Psittacosis, a rare disease, has been underdiagnosed or misdiagnosed during the COVID-19 pandemic, likely because the symptoms of the disease are similar to COVID-19 symptoms, researchers suggest on the basis of data from 32 individuals.
“The clinical manifestations of human psittacosis can present as rapidly progressing severe pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, sepsis, and multiple organ failure,” but human cases have not been well studied, they say.published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases, the researchers reviewed data from 32 adults diagnosed withpneumonia during the COVID-19 pandemic between April 2020 and June 2021 in China.
“All patients showed atypical pneumonia, including inflammatory infiltration, pleural effusion, multiple inflammatory exudative lesions with interstitial edema, lung abscesses, and white lung,”Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay testing were used to rule out COVID-19. The researchers then used metagenomic next-generation sequencing to identify the disease-causing pathogens.
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