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Volume 32, Number 5—May 2026

Synopsis

Three Fatal Gestational Psittacosis Cases Caused by Chlamydia psittaci Strains Belonging to Closely Related Lineages, Japan

Atsuko Nishino, Yukiko Nakura, Yukiko Sassa-O’Brien, Momoko Soeda, Hirokazu Sugii, Kanako Shimizu, Shiro Miura, Yumiko Sato, Michinobu Yoshimura1, Michiko Kodama, and Itaru YanagiharaComments to Author 
Author affiliation: Research Institute, Osaka Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Osaka, Japan (A. Nishino, Y. Nakura, M. Yoshimura, I. Yanagihara); The University of Osaka, Osaka, Japan (A. Nishino, M. Kodama, I. Yanagihara); Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan (Y. Sassa-O’Brien); NHO Nagasaki Medical Center, Nagasaki, Japan (M. Soeda, S. Miura); NHO Iwakuni Clinical Center, Yamaguchi, Japan (H. Sugii, Y. Sato); Tannan Health Welfare Center, Fukui, Japan (K. Shimizu); Maizuru Kyosai Hospital, Kyoto, Japan (K. Shimizu)

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Table 3

Sequence type and allelic profiles of three cases of gestational psittacosis complicated by maternal and fetal death in study of 3 fatal gestational psittacosis cases caused by C. psittaci strains belonging to closely related MLST lineages, Japan, 2017–2024*

Case ID Year GenBank accession no. PubMLST
ID		 Sequence type enoA hemN fumC gatA gidA hflX oppA
1 (FO-01)
 2017
 LC921559–65
 4431
 269
 13
 9
 78
 85
 92
 90
 78
2 (YO-02)
 2022
 LC888489–95
 5398
 335
 13
 9
 78
 85
 112
 108
 78
3 (NO-03) 2024 LC888482–8 5399 335 13 9 78 85 112 108 78

*ID, identification.

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1Current affiliation: Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan.

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