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Feline Pneumonitis

H. Bruce Ostler, MD; Julius Schachter, PhD; Chandler R. Dawson, MD

Arch Ophthalmol. 1969;82(5):587-591.

Abstract
A bedsonial (chlamydial) agent was found to be the cause of an acute follicular conjunctivitis in man. It was resistant to sulfonamides and did not possess an iodine-staining matrix. It was readily recoverable from the patient's conjunctival sac and from a cat believed to have been the host animal. Experimentally, it produced a conjunctivitis in kittens and was readily recoverable from their conjunctival sacs. This agent is believed to be identical with the agent of feline pneumonitis.

Author Affiliations
San Francisco

From the Francis I. Proctor Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology and the George Williams Hooper Foundation, University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication July 29, 1969.

Reprint requests to the Francis I. Proctor Foundation, University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco 94122 (Dr. Ostler).

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