Volume 31, Number 10—October 2025
Dispatch
Escherichia coli Sequence Type 131-H22 in Parrots from Illegal Pet Trade, Brazil, 2024
Victoria Galdino Pavlenco Rocha
, Fernanda Borges Barbosa, Joaquim Ruiz, Henrik Christensen, and Terezinha Knöbl
, Fernanda Borges Barbosa, Joaquim Ruiz, Henrik Christensen, and Terezinha Knöbl
Table
Virulence and resistance data of avian pathogenic Escherichia coli RG2991.1 ST131 strain from parrots in Brazil, encoding genes and their products found in PlasmidFinder, VirulenceFinder, and ResFinder databases*
| Product | Gene or plasmid | Virulence association |
|---|---|---|
| Mobility elements |
IncFIB, IncFII_1 |
Plasmid |
| Enterobactin components | entD, fepA, fes, fepC, fepG, fepD, entS, fepB, entE, entF, iutA, iucD, iucC, iucB, iucA |
Iron acquisition |
| Iron transport | chuS, chuA, chuT, chuX, chuU | |
| Yersiniabactin siderophore biosynthetic protein | ybtE, ybtT, ybtU, irp1, irp2, fyuA | |
| Salmochelin siderophore system |
iroB, iroC, iroD, iroE, iroN |
|
| K1 capsule |
kpsD, kpsT, kpsM |
Capsule |
| General secretion proteins |
gspM, gspL, gspK, gspJ, gspI, gspH, gspG, gspF, gspE, gspD, gspC |
General secretory pathway, type II secretion system |
| Outer membrane protein A |
ompA |
Invasion |
| Fimbrial proteins | fimA, fimI, fimC, fimD, fimF, fimG, fimH, fimE, fimB | Adhesins, biofilms |
| Fimbrial adhesins |
yagW/ecpD, fdeC |
|
| Invasion protein | ibeA | Invasion |
*PlasmidFinder, https://cge.food.dtu.dk/services/PlasmidFinder; ResFinder, https://genepi.food.dtu.dk/resfinder; Virulence Finder, https://cge.food.dtu.dk/services/VirulenceFinder).
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