Seasonal changes in bird communities on poultry farms and house sparrow-wild bird contacts revealed by camera trapping.

Introduction: Wild birds are considered reservoirs of poultry pathogens although transmission routes have not been conclusively established. Here we use camera trapping to study wild bird communities on commercial layer and red-legged partridge farms over a one-year timeframe. We also analyze direct and indirect interactions of other bird species with the house sparrow (), a potential bridge host.

Antimicrobial resistance and virulence profiles of isolated from two-finger and three-finger sloths ( and ) of Costa Rica.

Background: Wildlife has been recently recognized as an environmental reservoir for antimicrobial resistance (AMR). However, less information on this topic is available in animals released back into the wild after rehabilitation in wildlife facilities, compared with studies performed exclusively in captive or free-ranging wildlife. This study aimed to evaluate the potential influence of captivity and/or treatment while in captivity of wild sloths on the AMR and virulence profiles of sloths' .

A multidisciplinary approach to the evaluation of the effects of foraging on landfills on white stork nestlings.

The use of landfills as foraging areas by white storks (Ciconia ciconia) is a recent well-known behaviour. While several studies have highlighted positive effects at a populational level others suggest that the presence of pollutants, pathogens and the lower presence of antioxidants in the food could pose a health risk for individuals. The objective of this study was to evaluate potential effects of the use of landfills as a food resource on the physiology and health of white stork nestlings, by a multidisciplinary approach based on the analysis of nutritional status, body condition, blood parameters, oxidative stress balance and the presence of pathogens.

-Colistin Resistance Genes Mobilized by IncX4, IncHI2, and IncI2 Plasmids in of Pigs and White Stork in Spain.

Colistin has become the last-line antimicrobial for the treatment of multidrug resistant (MDR) in human medicine. To date, several colistin resistance genes have been described. Of them -1 is disseminated worldwide in of human and animal origin.