Prevalence of Salmonella enterica Subspecies enterica in Red-Eared Sliders Trachemys scripta elegans Retailed in Pet Shops in Japan
Autor: | Yumi Une, Ichiro Furukawa, Naoki Nakajima, Toshiro Kuroki, Tomoe Ishihara |
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Rok vydání: | 2019 |
Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
Microbiology (medical) Serotype Salmonella 030106 microbiology Outbreak General Medicine Biology Subspecies medicine.disease_cause biology.organism_classification Microbiology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Infectious Diseases Trachemys scripta Antibiotic resistance Salmonella enterica medicine Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis 030212 general & internal medicine |
Zdroj: | Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases. 72:38-43 |
ISSN: | 1884-2836 1344-6304 |
Popis: | We investigated the prevalence of Salmonella in 227 small red-eared sliders (Trachemys scripta elegans) from 2006 to 2008. A total of 130 turtles (57.3%) tested positive for S. enterica subsp. enterica. Twenty-two serotypes including S. Montevideo, S. Newport, S. Pomona, S. Braenderup, S. Sandiego, and S. Litchfield were identified. Salmonella strains with closely related pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) patterns were isolated from several shops located in different areas from 2006 to 2008. Antimicrobial resistance was detected among strains of S. Montevideo, S. Newport, S. Braenderup, S. Sandiego, and S. Litchfield. The relatedness of antimicrobial resistance and PFGE profiles was not observed. The PFGE patterns of S. Poona strains isolated in 2006 and 2008 and the causative strains of turtle-associated salmonellosis in 2006 were identical. These results revealed a high prevalence of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica in red-eared sliders retailed in Japan. In addition, genetically closely-related strains of turtle-associated Salmonella were repeatedly introduced into Japan over the study period and were distributed widely in Japan. These Salmonella strains present a risk of a widely disseminated outbreak of turtle-associated salmonellosis. |
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