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Prevalence, serovars and antimicrobial susceptibility of Salmonella spp. from wild and domestic green iguanas (Iguana iguana) in Grenada, West Indies.

Authors :
Sylvester WR
Amadi V
Pinckney R
Macpherson CN
McKibben JS
Bruhl-Day R
Johnson R
Hariharan H
Source :
Zoonoses and public health [Zoonoses Public Health] 2014 Sep; Vol. 61 (6), pp. 436-41. Date of Electronic Publication: 2013 Dec 10.
Publication Year :
2014

Abstract

Cloacal swabs from 62 green iguanas (Iguana iguana), including 47 wild and 15 domestic ones from five parishes of Grenada, were sampled during a 4-month period of January to April 2013 and examined by enrichment and selective culture for the presence of Salmonella spp. Fifty-five per cent of the animals were positive, and eight serovars of Salmonella were isolated. The most common serovar was Rubislaw (58.8%), a serovar found recently in many cane toads in Grenada, followed by Oranienburg (14.7%), a serovar that has been causing serious human disease outbreaks in Japan. Serovar IV:48:g,z51 :- (formerly, S. Marina) highly invasive and known for serious infections in children in the United States, constituted 11.8% of the isolates, all of them being from domestic green iguanas. Salmonella Newport, a serovar recently found in a blue land crab in Grenada, comprised 11.8% of the isolates from the green iguanas. The remaining four less frequent serovars included S. Javiana and S. Glostrup. Antimicrobial susceptibility tests conducted by a disc diffusion method against amoxicillin-clavulanic acid, ampicillin, cefotaxime, ceftazidime, ciprofloxacin, enrofloxacin, gentamicin, nalidixic acid, streptomycin, tetracycline and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole showed that drug resistance is minimal, with intermediate susceptibility, mainly to streptomycin, tetracycline and cefotaxime. This is the first report of isolation and antimicrobial susceptibilities of various Salmonella serovars from wild and domestic green iguanas in Grenada, West Indies.<br /> (© 2013 Blackwell Verlag GmbH.)

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1863-2378
Volume :
61
Issue :
6
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Zoonoses and public health
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
24325463
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1111/zph.12093