The prevalence of<i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i>and multidrug resistant<i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i>in healthy captive ophidian

Abstract

The overall <i>P. aeruginosa</i> prevalence found in this study was lower than that found by other authors, but a high proportion of the isolates were MDR. This study highlighted the presence of constitutive (such as age and taxonomic family) and managerial (farm size, cleaning cycle frequency and food type) factors associated with <i>P. aeruginosa</i> and/or MDR <i>P. aeruginosa</i> prevalence. Good breeding management and proper antibiotic treatment of <i>P. aeruginosa</i> infections could help reduce the presence of <i>P. aeruginosa</i> and MDR <i>P. aeruginosa</i> in the gut microbiota of snakes and consequently reduce the risk to public health.