First report of Enterocytozoon bieneusi and Cryptosporidium spp. in peafowl (Pavo cristatus) in China

Feng, Sheng-Yong; Chang, Han; Luo, Jing; Huang, Jing-Jing; He, Hong-Xuan

and Goose genotype â… . The former was found in peafowl from Beijing, and the latter was recovered in peafowl from Jiangxi Province. Cryptosporidium Avian genotype â…¢ was considered specific to birds and first identified in parrots in western Australia by Ng et al. (2006) . After that, the genotype was isolated from birds in other countries, such as from the families Psittacidae in Brazil (Gomes et al., 2012; Nakamura et al., 2009; Novaes et al., 2018) , Japan Makino et al., 2010) , China (Qi et al., 2011) and the USA (Ravich et al., 2014) , from seagulls in Thailand (Koompapong et al., 2014) , and from aquatic birds in Spain (Cano et al., 2016) . Though the Cryptosporidium Avian genotype â…¢ seems to play no role in zoonotic potential, its global distribution makes it impossible to ignore its potential threat to bird health. Cryptosporidium Goose genotype I had been detected in Canada Geese (Zhou et al., 2004) and was identified in the feces of peafowl for the first time. Both Cryptosporidium Avian genotype â…¢ and Goose genotype â… have not been found in humans up to now. Further research is needed to determine whether zoonotic Cryptosporidium species/genotypes occur in peafowl in other areas and settings.