RESEARCH ARTICLE
Presence of a Human Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli Clone in Captivity Kept Psittacidaes
Guilherme A Marietto-Gonçalves1, Silvia M de Almeida2, Josias Rodrigues1, *
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2011Volume: 5
First Page: 72
Last Page: 75
Publisher ID: TOMICROJ-5-72
DOI: 10.2174/1874285801105010072
Article History:
Received Date: 30/4/2011Revision Received Date: 10/5/2011
Acceptance Date: 12/5/2011
Electronic publication date: 20/7/2011
Collection year: 2011

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Abstract
Bacterial cultures of cloaca swabs from 86 captivity kept psittacidaes revealed 17 Escherichia coli bearing birds sharing strains which, on the basis of enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC) PCR analysis, proved to be genetically similar. Further, triplex PCR specific for the genetic markers chuA, yjaA, and TSPE4.C2 was used to assign the strains to the E. coli reference collection (EcoR) B2 group. One strain of each, from the enteropathogenic (EPEC), enteroaggregative (EAEC) and Shiga toxin (STEC) E. coli pathovars were found among these isolates.