A psittacosis epidemic linked to fulmar hunting occurred on the Faroe Islands in the 1930s. This study investigates a plausible explanation to the 20% human mortality in this outbreak. Phylogenetic analysis showed that Chlamydia psittaci isolated from fulmars were closely related to the highly virulent 6BC strains from psittacines and are compatible with an acquisition by fulmars of an ancestor of the 6BC clade in the 1930s. This supports the hypothesis that the outbreak on the Faroe Islands started after naïve fulmars acquired C. psittaci from infected dead parrots thrown overboard when shipped to Europe in the 1930s.

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鹦鹉热衣原体在法罗群岛鹱：一个因果关系南美严重的疫情后，鹦鹉八个十年

1930年代在法罗群岛发生了与​​花ful狩猎有关的鹦鹉疫。这项研究调查了这次暴发中20％的人类死亡率的合理解释。系统发育分析表明，鹦鹉热衣原体从鹱隔离密切相关，从鹦鹉高致病性毒株6BC并与由20世纪30年代6BC分支的祖先的鹱收购兼容。这支持了这样的假设，即法罗群岛的暴发始于幼稚的ful从1930年代运往欧洲的被扔到船外的被感染的死鹦鹉中获得了鹦鹉热梭菌。