Volucribacter psittacicida isolado em suabe traqueal de Arara-piranga (Ara macao)

Abstract

Certainly the main threats to the maintenance of biological diversity are species extinction and vulnerability, habitat fragmentation and loss, environmental pollution, human population increase and exploitation of natural resources, introduction of exotic species and disease dispersal, with special emphasis on infectious diseases, such as those of the Pasteurellaceae family, which also affect wild birds. Due to its importance in the diagnostic investigation of psittacine diseases, this study aims to report the isolation and sequencing of Volucribacter psittacicida, from the tracheal secretion sample of a specimen of Arara-piranga (Ara macao). It was characterized morphologically and biochemically in the identification being later conferred with the 16S rRNA gene sequencing. This study demonstrates the importance of the isolation of a bacterium of the family Pasteurellaceae, in psittacida kept in captivity, thus improving the diagnostic investigation and the establishment of therapeutic and preventive measures.