Iqbal Junaid, Sagheer Mehwish, Tabassum Nazneen, Siddiqui Ruqaiyyah, Khan Naveed Ahmed
Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Aga Khan University, Stadium Road, Karachi 74800, Pakistan.
Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi 74800, Pakistan.
ISRN Vet Sci. 2014 Apr 9;2014:878479. doi: 10.1155/2014/878479. eCollection 2014.
Using morphological analysis and biochemical testing, here for the first time, we determined the culturable gut bacterial flora (aerobes and facultative anaerobes) in the venomous Black Cobra (Naja naja karachiensis) from South Asia. The findings revealed that these snakes inhabit potentially pathogenic bacteria including Serratia marcescens, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Shewanella putrefaciens, Aeromonas hydrophila, Salmonella sp., Moraxella sp., Bacillus sp., Ochrobactrum anthropi, and Providencia rettgeri. These findings are of concern, as injury from snake bite can result in wound infections and tissue necrosis leading to sepsis/necrotizing fasciitis and/or expose consumers of snake meat/medicine in the community to infections.
通过形态学分析和生化测试，我们首次确定了来自南亚的有毒黑眼镜蛇（Naja naja karachiensis）可培养的肠道细菌菌群（需氧菌和兼性厌氧菌）。研究结果表明，这些蛇体内存在潜在的致病细菌，包括粘质沙雷氏菌、铜绿假单胞菌、腐败希瓦氏菌、嗜水气单胞菌、沙门氏菌属、莫拉克斯氏菌属、芽孢杆菌属、嗜碱假单胞菌和雷氏普罗威登斯菌。这些发现令人担忧，因为蛇咬伤会导致伤口感染和组织坏死，进而引发败血症/坏死性筋膜炎，和/或使社区中的蛇肉/蛇药消费者面临感染风险。
