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Originally Posted by kelzerman
I am curious if anyone has any information on what strains of salmonella are commonly found in snakes. If there is any references to these facts I would love to see them.
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In general I think salmonella is over-rated. I had a case quite a few years ago. Not fun, but I have had worse ailments.
Pretty interesting.
The aerobic gram-negative faecal flora of 78
reptiles consisting of 46 species (39
lizards of 23 species, 15
tortoises of 9 species, 24
snakes of 14 species) was studied.
Salmonella was found to be present in 50% of
lizards, in 16% of
tortoises and in 16% of
snakes. There were all together 15 different serotypes.
Edwardsiella tarda was isolated in 20% of
tortoises, in 12% of
snakes but only in 3% of
lizards.
Tortoises represent therefore the possible normal habitat of
Edwardsiella tarda. We isolated
Arizona specially from
snakes as was described by many authors. A new serotype (
Arizona 26a, 26b:27 - 21 =
S. arizonae 61:Z10:Z35) was found in a rattlesnake. There were found also much amounts of
Citrobacter (52%),
E. coli (50%),
Proteus mirabilis (49%),
Proteus morganii (18%),
Proteus rettgeri (26%),
Proteus vulgaris (32%).
Klebsiella and
Enterobacter seem to prefere the
lizards.
The overwhelming majority of the studied bacteria were lactose-negative, corresponding to the inability of reptiles producing lactose. The normal habitat of Salmonellae in
reptiles and the high phylogenetic age of
reptiles allows the hypothesis that salmonellae could have a similar old age as their
host animals, because the ecological niche, i.e. the bowel of
reptiles, has not changed for some hundred million years.
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http://http://europepmc.org/abstract/MED/998035/reload=0;jsessionid=tRISeBxcKOKSDzt8UYfZ.2
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