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Survey for Zoonotic Microsporidian Pathogens in Wild Living Urban Rooks (Corvus frugilegus).
The Journal of eukaryotic microbiology - 1 Sept 2017
Perec-Matysiak Agnieszka, Wesołowska Maria, Leśniańska Kinga, Buńkowska-Gawlik Katarzyna, Hildebrand Joanna, Kicia Marta
Abstract excerpt
Microsporidia are opportunistic pathogens in nature infecting all animal phyla. There is a potential risk of microsporidian spores transmission from urban rooks inhabiting some metropolitan cities to people through casual interactions. The aim of this study was to identify microsporidia species in the droppings of rooks in Wroclaw, Poland. A total of 15 collective sets of droppings were examined using nested-PCR...
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