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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Yeasts and filamentous fungi in psittacidae and birds of prey droppings in midwest region of Brazil: a potential hazard to human health

Abstract Birds of prey and from Psittacidae family are host to fungal microbiota and play an important role in the epidemiology of zoonoses. Few studies in the literature have characterized mycelial and yeast fungi in the droppings of these birds and correlated the isolates with the zoonotic potential o...