Stenotrophomonas maltophilia as a part of normal oral bacterial flora in captive snakes and its susceptibility to antibiotics

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 121, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 357-362

  Hejnar, Petr ^a   Bardoň, Jan ^b   Sauer, Pavel ^a   Kolář, Milan ^a  

^a PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b State Veterinary Institute   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Captive snakes; Oral flora; Stenotrophomonas maltophilia

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZTREONAM; CEFAZOLIN; CEFEPIME; CEFOPERAZONE; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFUROXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; OFLOXACIN; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SULPERAZON; SULTAMICILLIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; ELAPHE GUTTATA; MOUTH FLORA; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SNAKE; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOUTH; SNAKES; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PANTHEROPHIS GUTTATUS; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

EID: 33947123563     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2006.12.026     Document Type: Article

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