Detection of the European epidemic strain of Trichomonas gallinae in finches, but not other non-columbiformes, in the absence of macroscopic disease

• Published in: Parasitology
• Main Authors: ZU ERMGASSEN, ERASMUS K.H.J., DURRANT, CHRIS, JOHN, SHINTO, GARDINER, ROXANNE, ALREFAEI, ABDULWAHED F., CUNNINGHAM, ANDREW A., LAWSON, BECKI
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2016
• Subjects: Infectious Diseases; Animal Science and Zoology; Parasitology; Finch; Fennoscandia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0031182016000780; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0031182016000780

SUMMARY Finch trichomonosis is an emerging infectious disease affecting European passerines caused by a clonal strain of Trichomonas gallinae . Migrating chaffinches ( Fringilla coelebs ) were proposed as the likely vector of parasite spread from Great Britain to Fennoscandia. To test for such paras...