Chlamydia psittaci: an emerging cause of equine abortion and fatal neonatal illness in south‐eastern Australia

Abstract

While well known as a zoonotic pathogen of birds, Chlamydia psittaci is less well recognised as a cause of abortion in mares and severe infection in foals. However, in the past decade it has been causing epizootics of both in south‐eastern Australia, as Charles El‐Hage and James Gilkerson explain.