Escherichia albertii in Wild and Domestic Birds

Oaks, J. Lindsay; Besser, Thomas E.; Walk, Seth T.; Gordon, David M.; Beckmen, Kimberlee B.; Burek, Kathy A.; Haldorson, Gary J.; Bradway, Dan S.; Ouellette, Lindsey; Rurangirwa, Fred R.; Davis, Margaret A.; Dobbin, Greg; Whittam, Thomas S.

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Escherichia albertii in Wild and Domestic Birds

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Apr 2010
By Oaks, J. Lindsay ; Besser, Thomas E. ; Walk, Seth T. ; ...

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Emerg Infect Dis
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Oaks, J. Lindsay ; Besser, Thomas E. ; Walk, Seth T. ; Gordon, David M. ; Beckmen, Kimberlee B. ; Burek, Kathy A. ; Haldorson, Gary J. ; Bradway, Dan S. ; Ouellette, Lindsey ; Rurangirwa, Fred R. ; Davis, Margaret A. ; Dobbin, Greg ; Whittam, Thomas S.
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Escherichia albertii has been associated with diarrhea in humans but not with disease or infection in animals. However, in December 2004, E. albertii was found, by biochemical and genetic methods, to be the probable cause of death for redpoll finches (Carduelis flammea) in Alaska. Subsequent investigation found this organism in dead and subclinically infected birds of other species from North America and Australia. Isolates from dead finches in Scotland, previously identified as Escherichia coli O86:K61, also were shown to be E. albertii. Similar to the isolates from humans, E. albertii isolates from birds possessed intimin (eae) and cytolethal distending toxin (cdtB) genes but lacked Shiga toxin (stx) genes. Genetic analysis of eae and cdtB sequences, multilocus sequence typing, and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis patterns showed that the E. albertii strains from birds are heterogeneous but similar to isolates that cause disease in humans.
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Animals Animals, Domestic Animals, Wild Avian Bacteria Bacterial Toxins Birds Chickens Cytolethal Distending Toxin Ducks Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field Endotoxins Enteritis Enterobacteriaceae Infections Escherichia Finches Geese Genes, Bacterial Intimin Molecular Sequence Data Passeriformes Pathology Polymerase Chain Reaction Research Sequence Analysis, DNA Veterinary Virulence Factors
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Emerg Infect Dis. 16(4):638-646.
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Journal Article
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16
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4
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Emerging Infectious Diseases
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