Campylobacter coli infection in pet birds in southern Italy

Avian species are considered as the main reservoir of Campylobacter spp. However, few data are available on the presence of this microorganism in pet birds. This study was therefore performed to determine the prevalence of Campylobacter spp. in pet birds bred in southern Italy. Faecal samples were c...

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Autores principales: Dipineto, Ludovico, Borrelli, Luca, Pace, Antonino, Romano, Violante, D’Orazio, Stefano, Varriale, Lorena, Russo, Tamara Pasqualina, Fioretti, Alessandro
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5216605/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28061877
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13028-016-0271-y
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author Dipineto, Ludovico
Borrelli, Luca
Pace, Antonino
Romano, Violante
D’Orazio, Stefano
Varriale, Lorena
Russo, Tamara Pasqualina
Fioretti, Alessandro
author_facet Dipineto, Ludovico
Borrelli, Luca
Pace, Antonino
Romano, Violante
D’Orazio, Stefano
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Russo, Tamara Pasqualina
Fioretti, Alessandro
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description Avian species are considered as the main reservoir of Campylobacter spp. However, few data are available on the presence of this microorganism in pet birds. This study was therefore performed to determine the prevalence of Campylobacter spp. in pet birds bred in southern Italy. Faecal samples were collected from 88 cages housing different species of pet birds and examined by bacteriological culture and polymerase chain reaction. A total of 13.6% of the cage samples were positive for Campylobacter coli. Other Campylobacter spp. were not found. The study shows that C. coli can be isolated from the cages of apparently healthy pet birds, which should therefore be considered as potential carriers of C. coli and a possible source of infection for humans and companion animals.
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spelling pubmed-52166052017-01-09 Campylobacter coli infection in pet birds in southern Italy Dipineto, Ludovico Borrelli, Luca Pace, Antonino Romano, Violante D’Orazio, Stefano Varriale, Lorena Russo, Tamara Pasqualina Fioretti, Alessandro Acta Vet Scand Brief Communication Avian species are considered as the main reservoir of Campylobacter spp. However, few data are available on the presence of this microorganism in pet birds. This study was therefore performed to determine the prevalence of Campylobacter spp. in pet birds bred in southern Italy. Faecal samples were collected from 88 cages housing different species of pet birds and examined by bacteriological culture and polymerase chain reaction. A total of 13.6% of the cage samples were positive for Campylobacter coli. Other Campylobacter spp. were not found. The study shows that C. coli can be isolated from the cages of apparently healthy pet birds, which should therefore be considered as potential carriers of C. coli and a possible source of infection for humans and companion animals. BioMed Central 2017-01-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5216605/ /pubmed/28061877 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13028-016-0271-y Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Romano, Violante
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Varriale, Lorena
Russo, Tamara Pasqualina
Fioretti, Alessandro
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title Campylobacter coli infection in pet birds in southern Italy
title_full Campylobacter coli infection in pet birds in southern Italy
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title_short Campylobacter coli infection in pet birds in southern Italy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5216605/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28061877
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