Robert Koch Institute , Wernigerode Branch, Wernigerode , Germany ; Institute of Biological Sciences , University of Zielona Góra , Zielona Góra , Poland.
Department of Biology and Animal Environment , Faculty of Animal Breeding and Biology , UTP University of Science and Technology , Bydgoszcz , Poland.
Pol J Microbiol. 2020;69(1):1-6. doi: 10.33073/pjm-2020-011.
is a worldwide occurring nosocomial pathogen, the natural habitats of which remain to be defined. Recently, white stork nestlings have been described as a recurring source of . Here, we challenged the hypothesis of a general preference of for avian hosts. Taking advantage of campaigns to ring free-living birds, we collected cloacal swab samples from 741 black-headed gulls () in Poland, tracheal and cloacal swabs from 285 songbirds in Poland as well as tracheal swabs from 25 songbirds in Slovenia and screened those for the growth of on CHROMagar Acinetobacter. Of the 1,051 samples collected only two yielded isolates. Each carried one variant of the gene, i.e. OXA-71 and OXA-208, which have been described previously in clinical isolates of . In conclusion, our data do not support a general preference of for avian hosts. is a worldwide occurring nosocomial pathogen, the natural habitats of which remain to be defined. Recently, white stork nestlings have been described as a recurring source of . Here, we challenged the hypothesis of a general preference of for avian hosts. Taking advantage of campaigns to ring free-living birds, we collected cloacal swab samples from 741 black-headed gulls () in Poland, tracheal and cloacal swabs from 285 songbirds in Poland as well as tracheal swabs from 25 songbirds in Slovenia and screened those for the growth of on CHROMagar Acinetobacter. Of the 1,051 samples collected only two yielded isolates. Each carried one variant of the gene, i.e. OXA-71 and OXA-208, which have been described previously in clinical isolates of . In conclusion, our data do not support a general preference of for avian hosts.
是一种广泛存在于世界各地的医院病原体，其天然栖息地仍有待确定。最近，白头鹤雏鸟被描述为的一个反复出现的来源。在这里，我们对的普遍偏爱鸟类宿主的假设提出了质疑。我们利用给自由生活的鸟类戴环志的活动，从波兰的 741 只黑头鸥中收集了直肠拭子样本，从波兰的 285 只鸣禽中收集了气管和直肠拭子样本，从斯洛文尼亚的 25 只鸣禽中收集了气管拭子样本，并在 CHROMagar Acinetobacter 上筛选这些样本中是否有生长。在收集的 1051 个样本中，只有两个样本分离出了。每个都携带一个变体的基因，即 OXA-71 和 OXA-208，这两个变体以前在临床分离株中都有描述。总之，我们的数据不支持对鸟类宿主的普遍偏好。
