Clinical features and prognostic predictors of C. Psittaci Pneumonia: a systematic review and individual patient meta-analysis

Chronic cardiovascular disease increases susceptibility to severe C. psittaci pneumonia. The presence of dyspnea, neuropsychiatric symptoms, gastrointestinal symptoms, and multilobar infiltrates upon admission merits clinicians' attention, advocating for timely sample submission for metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) to ascertain the etiology.