Abstract
The case is a 42-year-old man who had high fever and headache. At first, typhoid fever or meningitis was suspected. Since he had kept shell parrakeets and one of them died, psittacosis-lymphogranuloma group was suspected. He was diagnosed as having psittacosis-lymphogranuloma group by a blood test.
This is a disease which has attracted attention as an imported infection, but there are not many typical cases. Antibiotics including cephalosporins are used frequently in cases suspected of this infection.
Presumably this is one of the factors which makes this disease atypical and precludes a reliable diagnosis.
