Pathogenic Taxa Constitute a Substantial Portion of Wild Bird and Bat Fecal bacterial Microbiota
A total of 418 and 161 bird cloacal swab and bat fecal pellet DNA samples, respectively, were isolated across Europe. A subset, i.e., 261 bird and 88 bat samples were subjected to PacBio sequencing of amplicons of the nearly full length 16S rRNA gene.