Novel salmonella variant associated with mortality in two great spotted woodpeckers (Dendrocopos major)

Vicky Wilkinson; Julia Rodriguez Ramos Fernandez; Alejandro Núñez; Shaheed K. Macgregor; Shinto K. John; Tim Dallman; Andrew A. Cunningham; Elizabeth M. de Pinna; Becki Lawson

doi:10.7589/2018-08-191

Novel salmonella variant associated with mortality in two great spotted woodpeckers (Dendrocopos major)

Vicky Wilkinson^*
, Julia Rodriguez Ramos Fernandez
, Alejandro Núñez
, Shaheed K. Macgregor
, Shinto K. John
, Tim Dallman
, Andrew A. Cunningham
, Elizabeth M. de Pinna
, Becki Lawson

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Two adult Great Spotted Woodpeckers (Dendrocopos major) from separate sites in Great Britain were examined postmortem in 2013 and 2016. A Salmonella sp. was isolated from multiple tissues in both birds. Histopathology and immunohistochemistry confirmed disseminated salmonellosis. Whole-genome sequencing and biochemical analyses putatively identified both isolates as a novel variant of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Hessarek (S. Hessarek). Salmonellosis has seldom been reported in Piciformes, and never before in association with S. Hessarek infection. These findings, therefore, add to current knowledge regarding the range of wild bird species susceptible to this Salmonella serovar, and our understanding of the pathogens affecting Great Spotted Woodpeckers, in particular.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	874-878
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of Wildlife Diseases
Volume	55
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.7589/2018-08-191
Publication status	Published - Oct 2019

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We thank the members of the public who reported the garden bird mortality incidents and Tim Hopkins for assistance with pathologic investigations. This work was supported by the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs and the Welsh Government through the Animal and Plant Health Agency?s Diseases of Wildlife Scheme Scanning Surveillance Programme (project ED1600), the Esm?e Fairbairn Foundation and the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare.

Funding Information:
We thank the members of the public who reported the garden bird mortality incidents and Tim Hopkins for assistance with pathologic investigations. This work was supported by the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs and the Welsh Government through the Animal and Plant Health Agency’s Diseases of Wildlife Scheme Scanning Surveillance Programme (project ED1600), the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare.

Publisher Copyright:
© Wildlife Disease Association 2019.

Keywords

Disease
Salmonella
Surveillance
Woodpecker

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Novel salmonella variant associated with mortality in two great spotted woodpeckers (Dendrocopos major)

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