Urban Feral Pigeons (Columba Livia) As a Source for Air- and Waterborne Contamination with Enterocytozoon Bieneusi Spores

Overview

Journal Appl Environ Microbiol

Specialties Environmental Health
Microbiology

Date 2007 May 8

PMID 17483269

Citations 20

Authors

Thaddeus K Graczyk

Deirdre Sunderland

Ana M Rule

Alexandre J da Silva

Iaci N S Moura

Leena Tamang

Autumn S Girouard

Kellogg J Schwab

Patrick N Breysse

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Abstract

This study demonstrated that a person with 30 min of occupational or nonoccupational exposure to urban feral pigeons, such as exposure through the cleaning of surfaces contaminated with pigeon excrement, could inhale approximately 3.5 x 10(3) Enterocytozoon bieneusi spores and that 1.3 x 10(3) spores could be inhaled by a nearby person.

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