Suttonella ornithocola detected within lesions of tit birds (Paridae) from epidemic death episodes in Germany, 2018-2020.

ABSTRACT: Several episodes of increased mortality in wild birds of the families Paridae and Aegithalidae have been documented in recent decades. The majority of affected animals exhibited necrotizing pneumonia with intralesional bacteria. Suttonella (S.) ornithocola, a gram-negative bacterium in the Cardiobacteriaceae family, has been regularly cultured bacteriologically from affected birds and has long been suspected as a potentially fatal cause of respiratory disease in birds. However, a direct causal relationship between this specific bacterium and the observed lesions within birds has not yet been established. Therefore, postmortem tissue from six tits was used in the present study, including three blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) and three great t

SUBMITTER: Leitzen E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9493112 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature