Liu Dandan, Wilson Cailin, Hearlson Jodie, Singleton Jennifer, Thomas R Brent, Crupper Scott S
Department of Biological Sciences, 1200 Commercial, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas 66801, USA.
J Zoo Wildl Med. 2013 Sep;44(3):666-71. doi: 10.1638/2012-0252R1.1.
Free-ranging Red-eared Sliders (Trachemys scripta elegans) were captured from farm ponds located in the Flint Hills of Kansas and a zoo pond in Emporia, Kansas, USA, to evaluate their enteric bacterial flora and associated antibiotic resistance. Bacteria obtained from cloacal swabs were composed of six different Gram-negative genera. Although antibiotic resistance was present in turtles captured from both locations, 40 and 49% of bacteria demonstrated multiple antibiotic resistance to four of the antibiotics tested from the zoo captured and Flint Hills ponds turtles, respectively. These data illustrate environmental antibiotic resistance is widespread in the bacterial flora obtained from Red-eared Sliders in east central Kansas.
从美国堪萨斯州弗林特山的农场池塘以及堪萨斯州恩波里亚的一个动物园池塘捕获了自由放养的红耳龟（滑龟指名亚种），以评估它们的肠道细菌菌群及相关的抗生素耐药性。从泄殖腔拭子中获取的细菌由六个不同的革兰氏阴性菌属组成。尽管从两个地点捕获的乌龟中都存在抗生素耐药性，但分别有40%和49%的细菌对从动物园捕获的乌龟和弗林特山池塘乌龟所测试的四种抗生素表现出多重抗生素耐药性。这些数据表明，环境抗生素耐药性在堪萨斯州中东部红耳龟的细菌菌群中广泛存在。
