TABLE 1.
Prevalence of Chlamydiaceae shedders among seabird species admitted to the CVFSE from May 2011 to January 2014
| Order | Family | Common species name (scientific name) | 23S-qPCR Chlamydiaceae |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. positivea | Mean Cq | Cq range | |||
| Anseriformes | Anatidae | Common scoter (Melanitta nigra) | 2/5 | 31.1 | 30.4–31.8 |
| Charadriiformes | Alcidae | Common murre (Uria aalge) | 2/30 | 35.1 | 32.1–38.1 |
| Alcidae | Razorbill (Alca torda) | 0/3 | |||
| Laridae | Black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) | 0/10 | |||
| Laridae | Common gull (Larus canus) | 0/1 | |||
| Laridae | European herring gull (Larus argentatus) | 11/81 | 35.6 | 28.3–39.0 | |
| Laridae | Great black-backed gull (Larus marinus) | 0/5 | |||
| Laridae | Lesser black-backed gull (Larus fuscus) | 1/7 | 34.7 | ||
| Laridae | Little gull (Hydrocoloeus minutus) | 0/2 | |||
| Laridae | Mediterranean gull (Ichthyaetus melanocephalus) | 0/1 | |||
| Laridae | Yellow-legged gull (Larus michahellis) | 1/2 | 37.7 | ||
| Procellariformes | Procellaridae | Northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) | 0/2 | ||
| Suliformes | Sulidae | Northern gannet (Morus bassanus) | 19/46 | 27.5 | 19.6–37.3 |
| Total | 36/195 | 31.0 | |||
a
For the number of positive results, the values are expressed as follows: the number of positive birds/the total number of birds examined.