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JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES
Volume 40, Issue 4, Pages 639-659Publisher
WILDLIFE DISEASE ASSOC, INC
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-40.4.639
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arboviruses; bacteria; birds; fungi; migration; protozoa; viruses
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The potential for transport and dissemination of certain pathogenic microorganisms by migratory birds is of concern. Migratory birds might be involved in dispersal of microorganisms as their biological carriers. mechanical carriers. or as carriers of infected hematophagous ver-parasites (e.g., ixodid ticks). Many species of microorganisms pathogenic to homeothermic e vertebrates including humans have been associated with free-living migratory birds. Migratory birds of diverse species can play significant roles in the ecology and circulation of some arboviruses (e.g., eastern and western equine encephalomyelitis and Sindbis alphaviruses. West Nile and St., Louis encephalitis flaviviruses), influenza A virus. Newcastle disease virus, duck plague herpes-virus, Chlamydophila psittaci, Anaplasma phagocytophilum. Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato. Campylobacter, jejuni, Salmonella enterica, Pasteurella multocida, Mycobacterium avium, Candida spp., and avian hematozoans. The efficiency of dispersal of pathogenic microorganisms depends on a wide variety of biotic and abiotic factors affecting the survival or the agent in. or disappearance from, a habitat or ecosystem in a new geographic area.
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