Multilocus sequence typing of Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale isolated from pigeons and birds of prey revealed new insights into its population structure.

ABSTRACT: The sudden emergence of Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale (ORT) in commercially raised poultry species and its presence in non-galliform birds raise important epidemiological issues about the role of interspecies transmission. In the present study, 21 ORT strains isolated from pigeons and from birds of prey were analyzed using the recently established multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme. Results were compared to MLST sequence data available from ORT strains isolated mainly from turkeys and chickens, but also single strains from pheasant, guineafowl and rook. The pigeon-derived ORT strains (n=11) were closely related amongst themselves representing their own cluster distant from ORT strains of non-columbiform avian hosts. ORT strains isolated from birds of prey (n=10) revealed a h

SUBMITTER: Thieme S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7386687 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature