Publications
| use of wildlife rehabilitation centres in pathogen surveillance: a case study in white storks (ciconia ciconia). | more than 70% of new human pathogens are zoonotic and many originate from the wildlife reservoir. wildlife rehabilitation centres (wrc) are an easily accessible source for sample and data collection for preventive surveillance, but data collected this way may be biased. we use white storks (ciconia ciconia) as a model to compare pathogen prevalence obtained in the field and wrc. we address factors that may affect disease prevalence data like origin, the age group and the "diseased" state of wrc ... | 2016 | 27435653 |
| wild birds, frequent carriers of extended-spectrum β-lactamase (esbl) producing escherichia coli of ctx-m and shv-12 types. | to get a better insight into the role of birds as reservoirs of extended-spectrum β-lactamase (esbl) and plasmidic ampc β-lactamase (pampc) escherichia coli producers, 100 fecal samples belonging to 15 different wild avian species from northern spain were analyzed. cefotaxime-resistant (ctx(r)) e. coli isolates were identified in 16 of the 100 tested birds, which corresponded to 9 animal species (gyps fulvus-griffon vulture, larus michahellis-yellow-legged gull, milvus migrans-black kite, milvus ... | 2016 | 26687342 |