LILACS – Literatura Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Ciencias de la Salud

Investigation of Mycoplasma spp. in birds of the Rio de Janeiro Zoo by isolation and PCR

Magalhães, Bárbara S. N; Pereira, Virginia Léo A; Dias, Thomas S; Machado, Leandro S; Silva, Mariane M; Nascimento, Elmiro R; Mendes-de-Almeida, Flavya; Almosny, Nádia Regina P.

Pesqui. vet. bras; 40 (3), 2020

Brazil is one of the countries with the most abundant avifauna in the world. The confinement of birds associated with close contact with other animals and humans favor the spread of agents of respiratory diseases. Among them, mycoplasmas can cause asymptomatic or apparent disease that manifests in birds ...

Mycoplasma/aislamiento & purificación, Mycoplasma gallisepticum/aislamiento & purificación, Mycoplasma synoviae/aislamiento & purificación, Psittaciformes/microbiología, Galliformes/microbiología, Rapaces/microbiología, Aves/microbiología, Animales de Zoológico/microbiología, Infecciones por Mycoplasma/epidemiología, Reacción en Cadena de la Polimerasa/veterinaria

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Pathologic and microbiologic aspects of pet psittacine infected by Escherichia coli and Salmonella Typhimurium

The role of Escherichia coli in healthy microbiota of psittacine is controversial, and the presence of Salmonella sp. indicates possible disease. Therefore, this study aimed to identify the presence of E. coli and Salmonella spp. in a psittacine pet that died in Fortaleza, Brazil, correlating pathogenici...