Urban feral pigeons (Columba livia) as a source for air- and waterborne contamination with Enterocytozoon bieneusi spores.
This study demonstrated that a person with 30 min of occupational or nonoccupational exposure to urban feral pigeons, such as exposure through the cleaning of surfaces contaminated with pigeon excrement, could inhale approximately 3.5 x 10(3) Enterocytozoon bieneusi spores and that 1.3 x 10(3) spores could be inhaled by a nearby person.
Graczyk
Thaddeus K
TK
Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. tgraczyk@jhsph.edu
Sunderland
Deirdre
D
Rule
Ana M
AM
da Silva
Alexandre J
AJ
Moura
Iaci N S
IN
Tamang
Leena
L
Girouard
Autumn S
AS
Schwab
Kellogg J
KJ
Breysse
Patrick N
PN
D000391:Air Microbiology; D000818:Animals; D010856:Columbidae / Q000382:microbiology*; D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D021862:Enterocytozoon / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000472:pathogenicity; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D006801:Humans; D016881:Microsporidiosis / Q000209:etiology; D016273:Occupational Exposure; D012307:Risk Factors; D013172:Spores, Fungal / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000472:pathogenicity; D014504:Urban Health; D014871:Water Microbiology
D004271:DNA, Fungal