Urban feral pigeons (Columba livia) as a source for air- and waterborne contamination with Enterocytozoon bieneusi spores

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 4357-4358

  Graczyk, Thaddeus K ^a   Sunderland, Deirdre ^a   Rule, Ana M ^a   Da Silva, Alexandre J ^b   Moura, Iaci N S ^b,c   Tamang, Leena ^a   Girouard, Autumn S ^a   Schwab, Kellogg J ^a   Breysse, Patrick N ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONOCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; URBAN FERAL PIGEONS; WATERBORNE CONTAMINATION;

CONTAMINATION; ECOLOGY;

MICROBIOLOGY;

AIR QUALITY; BIRD; FERAL ORGANISM; FUNGUS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SPORE; WATER QUALITY;

AIRBORNE INFECTION; ARTICLE; ENTEROCYTOZOON; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FECES; INFECTION RISK; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PIGEON; WATER CONTAMINATION;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; ANIMALS; COLUMBIDAE; DNA, FUNGAL; ENTEROCYTOZOON; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK FACTORS; SPORES, FUNGAL; URBAN HEALTH; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

COLUMBA; COLUMBA LIVIA; ENTEROCYTOZOON BIENEUSI;

EID: 34447536950     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00202-07     Document Type: Article

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