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1 June 2014 Racing Pigeons: A Reservoir for Nitro-Imidazole–Resistant Trichomonas gallinae
L. O. Rouffaer, C. Adriaensen, C. De Boeck, E. Claerebout, A. Martel
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Abstract

Trichomonas gallinae , the cause of avian trichomonosis, is most commonly found in the order Columbiformes. Racing pigeons are often treated preventively with nitro-imidazoles, which could result in the emergence of resistant isolates, and these isolates can be a threat to wildlife when exchanges occur. The sequence type of 16 T. gallinae isolates obtained from racing pigeons and 15 isolates from wild pigeons was determined based on the ITS1/5.8S rRNA/ITS2 region sequence. In addition, the resistance profiles of these isolates against 5 different nitro-imidazoles (metronidazole, dimetridazole, ronidazole, tinidazole, and carnidazole) were determined. Two different Trichomonas sequence types were isolated. Sequence type A isolates were recovered from racing and wild pigeons, in contrast to sequence type B, which was only isolated from wild pigeons. Isolates with sequence type B were all susceptible to the tested nitro-imidazoles, except for tinidazole resistance in 3 isolates. Resistance to the nitro-imidazoles was observed more frequently in isolates obtained from racing pigeons than from wild pigeons, with most isolates belonging to sequence type A. A higher percentage of the sequence type A isolated from racing pigeons, in comparison with those isolated from the wild pigeons, were resistant to the nitro-imidazoles and displayed higher mean lethal concentration (MLC) values. Two isolates belonging to sequence type A, 1 recovered from a racing pigeon and 1 from a wild pigeon, displayed a similar resistance pattern, suggesting a potential exchange of resistant isolates between racing pigeons and wild pigeons.

© American Society of Parasitologists 2014
L. O. Rouffaer, C. Adriaensen, C. De Boeck, E. Claerebout, and A. Martel "Racing Pigeons: A Reservoir for Nitro-Imidazole–Resistant Trichomonas gallinae," Journal of Parasitology 100(3), 360-363, (1 June 2014). https://doi.org/10.1645/13-359.1
Published: 1 June 2014
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