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| Albuquerque,ÁH; Cardoso,WM; Teixeira,RSC; Lopes,ES; Sales,RJPF; Horn,RV; Rocha-e-Silva,RC; Bezerra,WGA; Gomes-Filho,VJR. |
| Two groups of domestic pigeons (Columba livia) were experimentally infected orally with doses of 9.5 x10(7) and 9.5 x10(9) CFU/mL (group A and B, respectively) of a Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) strain isolated from chickens. None of the used doses caused mortality of the inoculated birds; however, the pathogen was successfully recovered from the liver and spleen of group B birds on day 7 post-inoculation (dpi). Pathogen shedding, as evaluated through cloacal swabs, occurred in both groups until the 14th day of observation (p <0.05). Among all fecal samples collected from group B (n=4), three different birds shed the pathogen in their feces, out of which two were positive on 3 dpi and one on 7 dpi. The same number of fecal samples was evaluated in group A... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Inoculation; Pigeons; Salmonella Enteritidis. |
| Ano: 2013 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-635X2013000300007 |
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