Salmonellae in gulls and other free-living birds in the Czech Republic.
Cloacal swabs, collected from 756 wild synanthropic and exoanthropic birds of 57 species in the Czech Republic, yielded 32 strains of Salmonella typhimurium [phage types (PT) 141, 104 and 41], six isolates of S. enteritidis (PT 8, 4 and 6e), and one each of S. panama and S. anatum. Except for one S. enteritidis isolate from a grey-lag goose (Anser anser) and one S. typhimurium isolate from a coot (Fulica atra), all of the other strains were derived from black-headed gulls (Larus ridibundus), of which 24.7% were found to be infected. The black-headed gull might play a role in the dispersal of pathogenic salmonellae.
Hubálek
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Institute of Landscape Ecology, Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic.
Sixl
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W
Mikuláskova
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M
Sixl-Voigt
B
B
Thiel
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W
Halouzka
J
J
Juricová
Z
Z
Rosický
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B
Mátlová
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L
Honza
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M
D000818:Animals; D001717:Birds / Q000382:microbiology*; D002988:Cloaca / Q000382:microbiology; D018153:Czech Republic; D012477:Salmonella enteritidis / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D012486:Salmonella typhimurium / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification*