The kākāpō is a critically endangered flightless parrot which suffers from exudative cloacitis, a debilitating disease resulting in inflammation of the vent margin or cloaca. Despite this disease emerging over 20 years ago, the cause of exudative cloacitis remains elusive. We used total RNA sequencing and metatranscriptomic analysis to characterise the infectome of lesions and cloacal swabs from nine kākāpō affected with exuda...

This study investigated the diversity of thermophilic Campylobacter species isolated from three New Zealand freshwater catchments affected by pastoral and urban activities. Utilising matrix‐assisted laser desorption ionisation‐time of flight and whole genome sequence analysis, the study identified Campylobacter jejuni ( n = 46, 46.0%), C . coli ( n = 39, 39%), C . lari ( n = 4, 4.0%), and two novel Campylobacter species lineag...