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¹ Departments of Infectious Diseases and
² Molecular Biology, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden;
³ Research Institute for Zoonotic Ecology and Epidemiology, Ölands Skogsby 6280, SE-386 93 Färjestaden, Sweden;
⁴ Department of Animal Ecology, Ecology Building, Lund University, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden;
⁵ Department of Zoology, University of Göteborg, Box 463, SE-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden;
⁶ Department of Bacteriology, National Veterinary Institute, SE-751 89 Uppsala, Sweden
⁷ Corresponding author (email: bjornol{at}ltkalmar.se)

ABSTRACT:   Rare species with small population sizes are vulnerable to perturbations such as disease, inbreeding, or random events. The threat arising from microbial pathogens could be large and other species could act as reservoirs for pathogens. We report finding three enteric bacterial species, Salmonella Amager, Campylobacter jejuni, and urease-positive thermophilic Campylobacter, in nestling free-flying peregrine falcons (Falco peregrinus) in Sweden in 2000. Campylobacter jejuni isolates exhibited marked genetic similarities to an isolate from a human, providing a possible association between a human-associated strain of this bacterium and peregrine falcons.
  Key words:  Campylobacter jejuni, epidemiology, peregrine falcon, Salmonella Amager, wild birds.