Presence of a human diarrheagenic escherichia coli clone in captivity kept psittacidaes

Bacterial cultures of cloaca swabs from 86 captivity kept psittacidaes revealed 17 Escherichia coli bearing birds sharing strains which, on the basis of enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC) PCR analysis, proved to be genetically similar. Further, triplex PCR specific for the genetic markers chuA, yjaA, and TSPE4.C2 was used to assign the strains to the E. coli reference collection (EcoR) B2 group. One strain of each, from the enteropathogenic (EPEC), enteroaggregative (EAEC) and Shiga toxin (STEC) E. coli pathovars were found among these isolates. © Marietto-Gonçalves et al.; Licensee Bentham Open.

Keywords

Diarrhea, Escherichia coli, Parakeets, Parrots, Shiga-toxin, antibiotic agent, chloramphenicol, ciprofloxacin, enrofloxacin, gentamicin, streptomycin, sulfamycin, tetracycline, trimethoprim, unclassified drug, animal tissue, antibiotic resistance, bacterial gene, bacterial strain, bacterium culture, bacterium isolate, chuA gene, cloaca, clone, controlled study, diarrheagenic Escherichia coli, enteroaggregative Escherichia coli, enteropathogenic Escherichia coli, genetic marker, nonhuman, pathotype, priority journal, psittacine, Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli, tspE4 C2 gene, yjaA gene, Aves, Bacteria (microorganisms), Enterobacteriaceae, Psittacidae