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  1. Infectious acute or chronic disease,
  2. contracted by humans from birds (especially
  3. parrots), which may result in pneumonia. It
  4. is caused by a bacterium (Chlamydia psittaci,
  5. see chlamydia) and treated with antibiotics.
  6.