20.500.12556/DKUM-91692 Low occurrence of Acinetobacter baumannii in gulls and songbirds Acinetobacter baumannii is a worldwide occurring nosocomial pathogen, the natural habitats of which remain to be defined. Recently, white stork nestlings have been described as a recurring source of A. baumannii. Here, we challenged the hypothesis of a general preference of A. baumannii for avian hosts. Taking advantage of campaigns to ring free-living birds, we collected cloacal swab samples from 741 black-headed gulls (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) in Poland, tracheal and cloacal swabs from 285 songbirds in Poland as well as tracheal swabs from 25 songbirds in Slovenia and screened those for the growth of A. baumannii on CHROMagar™ Acinetobacter. Of the 1,051 samples collected only two yielded A. baumannii isolates. Each carried one variant of the bla OXA-51-like gene, i.e. OXA-71 and OXA-208, which have been described previously in clinical isolates of A. baumannii. In conclusion, our data do not support a general preference of A. baumannii for avian hosts. Acinetobacter baumannii seagulls songbirds Erithacus rubecula Chroicocephalus ridibundus free-living birds nosocomial pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii galebi ptice pevke taščice rečni galebi prosto živeče ptice bolnišnični patogen true false true Polskie Towarzystwo Mikrobiologów Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Znanstveno delo 2025-01-28 13:01:40 2025-01-28 13:18:32 2025-01-29 03:12:03 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2020 0 0 Str. 85-90 št. 1 Letn. 69 2020 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 2019-12-05 2020-02-11 2020-03-12 579:598.2 25172488 10.33073/pjm-2020-011 1733-1331 Lopinska-2020-Low_Occurrence_of__i_Acinetobact.pdf Lopinska-2020-Low_Occurrence_of__i_Acinetobact.pdf 1 7DD10EF8D895A2C295108EA22FEA9CCB aa16358b4abd7971f2c05b5eeafdde20592b88e6e655188ee6288aa500fe7777 dc222cdc-dd71-11ef-9187-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=188214 https://doi.org/10.33073/pjm-2020-011 0 a37981d2-dd6f-11ef-9187-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=188212 Fakulteta za naravoslovje in matematiko 0 0 0