Ocorrência de aves sororreagentes ao mycoplasma spp. Em locais de reabilitação de aves silvestres (relato de caso)

Abstract

Mycoplasmosis is an infectious disease that can affect several avian species causing respiratory tract disorders for the majority of the infected poultry. There is a substantial number of studies about the prevalence of mycoplasmosis in the poultry industry and backyard poultry production. Nevertheless, little is known about the mycoplasmosis prevalence in wild birds. Wild birds can be infected during the rehabilitation when they get in contact with backyard birds from the country, where the nurseries are built. Is important to identifying reservoirs birds as an important tool for wildlife conservation and rehabilitation programs of wild birds, as the wild birds will be kept and released in the vicinity of poultry backyards. The main goal of this study was to identify backyard poultry serologic positive to Mycoplasma spp. living close to the areas designated for rehabilitation and release of wild birds using slide serologic agglutination test for the rapid diagnosis of Mycoplasma infection. The results show that all the sampled backyard birds were serologic positive to Mycoplasma gallisepticum and to Mycoplasma synoviae. This finding implies that the proximity of wild poultry in rehabilitation to other avian species must be avoided in order to restrain the pathogens spread to the wild environment. Such preventive measures can also be valuable for species conservation programs. It is therefore suggested that more works on identifying reservoirs poultry are conducted.