House says he put Alfredo on the psittacosis meds as soon as she left . Cuddy later gives Alfredo the diagnosis and explains that his asthma had made him vulnerable to the disease, which is why he got it and not anyone else.
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Smadel then moved on to New York City to work under scientists Homer Swift and Thomas M . Rivers at the ultra-centrifugation and chemical fractionation, Smadel made significant contributions to the understanding of myxomatosis, viral encephalitis, variola, vaccinia, and psittacosis.
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In January 2008, PetSmart temporarily suspended sales of birds in all U . S . stores as a precautionary measure after random testing found a small percentage of cockatiels that tested positive for psittacosis, a fairly common infection in birds that may produce cold-like symptoms.
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Burnet's major achievements in microbiology included discovering the causative agents of Q-fever and psittacosis; developing assays for the isolation, culture and detection of influenza virus; describing the recombination of influenza strains; demonstrating that the myxomatosis virus does not cause disease in humans.
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"nystagmus " and " psittacosis " readily turn up . ) Joe's love affair with Rosa Luxemburg Saks, a surrealist with ties to a Fifth Avenue department store, is interspersed with Sammy's covert romance with a hunky actor named Tracy Bacon.
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Oxytetracycline is still used to treat infections caused by " Chlamydia " ( e . g . the chest infection psittacosis, the eye infection trachoma, and the genital infection urethritis ) and infections caused by " Mycoplasma " organisms ( e . g . pneumonia ).
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Diseases considered for or known to be used as a weapon include anthrax, ebola, Marburg virus, plague, cholera, typhus, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tularemia, brucellosis, Q fever, machupo, Coccidioides mycosis, Glanders, Melioidosis, Shigella, Psittacosis, Japanese B encephalitis, Rift Valley fever, yellow fever, and smallpox.
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While working for the New York State Health Department, where he became chief of the division of communicable diseases and later assistant commissioner, Korns wrote two important papers, one on psittacosis, a bird disease that can be transmitted to humans, the other on an epidemic of keratoconjunctivitis at a General Electric Co . plant in Schenectady, N . Y . Those papers won him a nomination to the American Epidemiological Society, of which he was later elected secretary and president and where he met Dr . Jonas Salk.
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Many medical causes underlying the development of feather-plucking have been proposed including allergies ( contact / inhalation / food ), endoparasites, ectoparasites, skin irritation ( e . g . by toxic substances, low humidity levels ), skin desiccation, hypothyroidism, obesity, pain, reproductive disease, systemic illness ( in particular liver and renal disease ), hypocalcaemia, psittacine beak and feather disease ( PBFD ), proventricular dilatation syndrome, colic, giardiasis, psittacosis, airsacculitis, heavy metal toxicosis, bacterial or fungal folliculitis, genetic feather abnormalities, nutritional deficiencies ( in particular vitamin A ) and / or dietary imbalances, and neoplasia.
