suttonella ornithicola sp. NOV. INFECTIONS OF SPECIES OF TIT AND LONG-TAILED TITS

J. PAUL DUFF

A nimal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency Diseases of Wildlife Scheme (AHVLA DoWS), Great Britain Wildlife Disease Surveillance Partnership, Penrith, Cumbria, UK

Gram-negative rod-shaped organisms were isolated from the lungs of blue tit ( Cyanistes caeruleus), coal tit (Periparus ater), great tit (Parus major) and long-tailed tit (Aegithalos caudatus), the latter species being unrelated to the other members of the Paridae tit family.

This organism was found to be a new bacterium, Suttonella ornithocola, belonging to the family Cardiobacteriaceae. Suttonella ornithicola has been isolated from birds from mortality incidents with a wide geographical distribution within the UK⁽⁸¹⁾. Incidents have occurred sporadically and at low incidence, suggesting that the infection is endemic in native bird populations with a seasonal spring peak. Pulmonary congestion was seen in the birds at necropsy, and histopathology showed multiple foci of acute pulmonary necrosis associated with the bacteria, indicating that S. ornithocola is a primary pathogen of these passerine species in the UK.

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