Salmonella Aamager, Campylobacter jejuni, and urease-positive thermophilic Campylobacter found in free-flying peregrine falcons (Falco peregrinus) in Sweden

• Main Authors: Palmgren, H, Broman, T, Waldenström, Jonas, Lindberg, P, Aspan, A, Olsen, B
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wildlife Disease Association 2004
• Subjects: Ecology; Falco peregrinus
• Online Access: https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/136877

Rare species with small population sizes are vulnerable to perturbations such as disease, inbreeding, or random events. The threat arising from microbial pathogens could be large and other species could act as reservoirs for pathogens. We report finding three enteric bacterial species, Salmonella Amager, Campylobacter jejuni, and urease-positive thermophilic Campylobacter, in nestling free-flying peregrine falcons (Falco peregrinus) in Sweden in 2000. Cainpylobacterfied inarked genetic similarities to an isolate froin a human, providing a possible association between a human-associated strain of this bacterinin and peregrine falcons.