High prevalence of Trichomonas gallinae in wild columbids across western and southern Europe

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Avian trichomonosis is known as a widespread disease in columbids and passerines, and recent findings have highlighted the pathogenic character of some lineages found in wild birds. Trichomonosis can affect wild bird populations including endangered species, as has been shown for Mauritian pink pigeons Nesoenas mayeri in Mauritius and suggested for European turtle doves Streptopelia turtur in the UK. However, the disease trichomonosis is caused only by pathogenic lineages of the parasite Trichomonas gallinae. Therefore, understanding the prevalence and distribution of both potentially pathogenic and non-pathogenic T. gallinae lineages in turtle doves and other columbids across Europe is relevant to estimate the potential impact of the disease on a continental scale.

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Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Marx, M Reiner, G Willems, H Rocha, G Hillerich, K Masello, JF Mayr, SL Moussa, S Dunn, JC Thomas, RC Goodman, SJ Hamer, KC https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2158-2420 Metzger, B Cecere, JG Spina, F Koschkar, S Calderón, L Romeike, T Quillfeldt, P
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© The Author(s) 2017. Open Access: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
Keywords:	Trichomonas gallinae; Columbiformes; Stock dove; Phylogenetic analysis; Genetic lineage; Pathogen
Dates:	Accepted: 3 May 2017 Published (online): 18 May 2017 Published: December 2017
Institution:	The University of Leeds
Academic Units:	The University of Leeds > Faculty of Biological Sciences (Leeds) > School of Biology (Leeds)
Depositing User:	Symplectic Publications
Date Deposited:	19 May 2017 13:01
Last Modified:	05 Oct 2017 16:18
Status:	Published
Publisher:	BioMed Central
Identification Number:	10.1186/s13071-017-2170-0
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:116704

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High prevalence of Trichomonas gallinae in wild columbids across western and southern Europe

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