All published articles of this journal are available on ScienceDirect.

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Presence of a Human Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli Clone in Captivity Kept Psittacidaes

Guilherme A Marietto-Gonçalves1 Silvia M de Almeida2 Josias Rodrigues1 , * Open Modal Authors Info & Affiliations
The Open Microbiology Journal • 20 July 2011 • RESEARCH ARTICLE • DOI: 10.2174/1874285801105010072

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.

Keywords: Shiga-toxin, diarrhea, parrots, parakeets, Escherichia coli.
Fulltext HTML PDF
1800
1801
1802
1803
1804