Urban feral pigeons (Columba livia) as a source for air- and waterborne contamination with Enterocytozoon bieneusi spores

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

doi:10.1128/AEM.00202-07

Urban feral pigeons (Columba livia) as a source for air- and waterborne contamination with Enterocytozoon bieneusi spores

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

Bloomberg School of Public Health

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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 × 10³ Enterocytozoon bieneusi spores and that 1.3 × 10³ spores could be inhaled by a nearby person.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	4357-4358
Number of pages	2
Journal	Applied and environmental microbiology
Volume	73
Issue number	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00202-07
State	Published - Jul 2007

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