title: Salmonellae in gulls and other free-living birds in the Czech Republic.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Landscape Ecology, Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Hubálek
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Sixl
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mikuláskova
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sixl-Voigt
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Thiel
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Halouzka
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Juricová
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rosický
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mátlová
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Honza
mesh_terms: 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*