Oral microbiota of Brazilian captive snakes

dc.contributorUniversidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
dc.creatorFonseca, M. G.
dc.creatorMoreira, W. W. Q.
dc.creatorCunha, K. C.
dc.creatorRibeiro, A. C. M. G.
dc.creatorAlmeida, M. T. G.
dc.date2014-05-20T15:31:37Z
dc.date2016-10-25T18:07:31Z
dc.date2014-05-20T15:31:37Z
dc.date2016-10-25T18:07:31Z
dc.date2009-01-01
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-06T00:23:08Z
dc.date.available2017-04-06T00:23:08Z
dc.identifierJournal of Venomous Animals and Toxins Including Tropical Diseases. Botucatu: Cevap-unesp, v. 15, n. 1, p. 54-60, 2009.
dc.identifier1678-9199
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/40703
dc.identifierhttp://acervodigital.unesp.br/handle/11449/40703
dc.identifiers1678-91992009000100006
dc.identifierWOS:000264366500006
dc.identifiers1678-91992009000100006-en.pdf
dc.identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1678-91992009000100006
dc.identifier.urihttp://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/883453
dc.descriptionThe present work aimed to determine the oral microbiotic composition of snakes from Sao Jose do Rio Preto city, São Paulo State, Brazil. Ten snake species, comprising the families Boidae, Colubridae, Elapidae and Viperidae, were submitted to microbiological examination of their oral cavity, which indicated positivity for all buccal samples. Gram-negative bacilli, gram-negative cocci bacilli, gram-positive bacilli and gram-positive cocci were isolated from the snakes. Among isolated bacterium species, the occurrence of coagulase-negative staphylococci in the buccal cavity of Crotalus durissus (Viperiade), Eunectes murinus (Boidae), Mastigodryas bifossatus (Colubridae) and Bacillus subtilis, common to oral cavity of Bothrops alternatus (Viperidae) and Phalotris mertensi (Colubridae), was detected. It was observed higher diversity of isolated bacteria from the oral cavity of Micrurus frontalis (Elapidae) and Philodryas nattereri (Colubridae), as well as the prevalence of gram-positive baccillus and gram-positive cocci. The composition of the oral microbiota of the studied snakes, with or without inoculating fangs, is diverse and also related to the formation of abscesses at the bite site in the victims of the ophidian accidents, and to pathogenic processes in the snakes that host these microorganisms.
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherUniversidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Centro de Estudos de Venenos e Animais Peçonhentos (CEVAP)
dc.relationJournal of Venomous Animals and Toxins Including Tropical Diseases
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subjectvenomous snakes
dc.subjectnon-venomous snakes
dc.subjectoral cavity
dc.subjectbacterial isolation
dc.subjectcaptive snakes
dc.titleOral microbiota of Brazilian captive snakes
dc.typeOtro


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