Resumen de Fongs de mostres cloacals d'ocells silvestres

Rafael Mateo Soria, Ángel L. Ballesteros, Rafael A. Molina, Jordi Grifols, Albert Martínez Vilalta, Pere Miquel Parés i Casanova, Deli Saavedra

• Birds rnay transport pathogenic organisms to humans, with o special risk for those persons in close contact. The present paper studies the possibility of the transmission of fungal diseases via faeces. Cloacal samples frorn 50 adults birds of 11 species, and 40 Audouin's Gull Larus audouinii nestlings were taken in the Ebro Delta, Tarragona (NE Spain]. In the first group, only one sample from a House Sparrow Passer domesticus revealed fungal growth. It was identified as Aspergillus glaucus. In the second group, 20% of the samples revealed the presence of fungal spores of the genus Alternaria ond on actinornycetal. Species from the genero Aspergillus and Alternaria have been recognized in pathologicol processes, but the sources of infections are other than birds.