Open AccessISOLATIONS OF AEROBIC BACTERIA FROM WILD DESERT BIGHORN SHEEP (OVIS CANADENSIS NELSONI AND O. C. MEXICANA) IN ARIZONA
Author(s) -
Marilyn M. Marshall,
J. Glenn Songer,
C. J. Chilelli,
James C. deVos
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
journal of wildlife diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.613
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1943-3700
pISSN - 0090-3558
DOI - 10.7589/0090-3558-19.2.98
Subject(s) - biology , moraxella , microbiology and biotechnology , enterobacter , acinetobacter , citrobacter , proteus , streptococcus , bacilli , staphylococcus epidermidis , ovis , corynebacterium , neisseria , staphylococcus aureus , bacteria , veterinary medicine , escherichia coli , antibiotics , ecology , medicine , genetics , biochemistry , gene
Nasal, pharyngeal, cervical and vaginal swab specimens were obtained from 74 desert bighorn sheep for the purpose of investigating the normal aerobic bacterial flora of wild sheep. A total of 281 isolates was obtained and identified by standard microbiologic tests. One hundred seven of these isolates were gram positive and included Bacillus sp. (36%), Staphylococcus epidermidis (8%), S. aureus (4%), Corynebacterium sp. (diphtheroids, 4%), and Streptococcus sp. (48%). gram negative isolates totaled 174 and included Neisseria sp. (18%), Citrobacter sp. (3%), Enterobacter sp. (2%), Escherichia coli (2%), Proteus sp. (2%) and non-fermentative bacilli (NFB) (73%). Of the NFB isolates, Pseudomonas sp. (25%), Acinetobacter sp. (18%), Moraxella sp. (15%) were identified.
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