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Infectious Disease — Pet Bird

High-yield infectious disease presentations in pet bird cases, drilled with NAVLE-style vignettes.

Lime-green urates in a sick, recently acquired psittacine with a concurrently ill owner points to Chlamydia psittaci, a reportable zoonosis causing human psittacosis. Treatment is an extended doxycycline course, and the owner should see a physician.