More than twenty species of Mycoplasma genus have been described in avian hosts, but Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) is one of the most important ...BrowseSubjectAreas?ClickthroughthePLOStaxonomytofindarticlesinyourfield.FormoreinformationaboutPLOSSubjectAreas,clickhere.ArticleAuthorsMetricsCommentsMediaCoverageReaderComments(0)FiguresFiguresAbstractMycoplasmagallisepticumisoneofthemostimportantpoultrypathogensthatcanalsoinfectwildbirds,butknowledgeofpotentialnon-poultryhoststhatcouldbereservoirsofM.gallisepticumislimited.Forthepaperpresentedhere,wescreenedthreedatabases(PubMed,Scopus,andtheWebofKnowledge)tofindarticlesontheoccurrenceofM.gallisepticumindifferentwildbirdspeciesthatwerepublishedbetween1951and2018.Among314studiesfound,weselectedandincluded50originalarticlesthatmetthepre-establishedcriteria.Fromthosepublicationsweextractedthefollowinginformation:nameofthefirstauthor,yearofpublication,yearofsampleisolation,country,region,numberofbirdssampled,numberofbirdstestedbyeachmethod,numberofpositivesamples,diagnosticcriteria,andifbirdswerewildorcaptive.BecausedifferentdetectiontechniqueswereusedtoconfirmthepresenceofM.gallisepticuminoneanimal,wedecidedtoperformthemetaanalysesseparatelyforeachmethod.TheestimatedprevalenceofM.gallisepticuminwildbirdswasdifferentbyeachmethodofdetection.OursummaryrevealedthatM.gallisepticumwaspresentin56speciesofbirdbelongingto11differentorders,ofwhich21specieswerereportedsufferingbothpastandcurrentinfection.OurworkprovidesinformationonwildbirdspeciesthatcouldbeconsideredpotentialreservoirsorcarriersofM.gallisepticumandcouldbehelpfultosetthedirectionforfutureresearchonthespreadandphylogenyofM.gallisepticumindifferenthosts.Citation:SawickaA,DurkalecM,TomczykG,KursaO(2020)OccurrenceofMycoplasmagallisepticuminwildbirds:Asystematicreviewandmeta-analysis.PLoSONE15(4):e0231545.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231545Editor:GrzegorzWoźniakowski,PanstwowyInstytutWeterynaryjny-PanstwowyInstytutBadawczywPulawach,POLANDReceived:January16,2020;