NASAL AND CLOACAL BACTERIA IN FREE-RANGING DESERT TORTOISES FROM THE WESTERN UNITED STATES

Vanessa M. Dickinson; Timothy Duck; Cecil R. Schwalbe; James L. Jarchow; Mark H. Trueblood

doi:10.7589/0090-3558-37.2.252

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1 April 2001 NASAL AND CLOACAL BACTERIA IN FREE-RANGING DESERT TORTOISES FROM THE WESTERN UNITED STATES

Vanessa M. Dickinson, Timothy Duck, Cecil R. Schwalbe, James L. Jarchow, Mark H. Trueblood

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J. of Wildlife Diseases, 37(2):252-257 (2001). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-37.2.252

Abstract

Aerobic bacteria were collected from three free-ranging desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) populations in the eastern Mojave Desert (Arizona, Utah; USA) from 1989 to 1993, and from two free-ranging populations in the central Sonoran Desert (Arizona, USA) from 1990 to 1994. Six species of nasal bacteria and 18 species of cloacal bacteria were identified. At least one potential pathogen was found in the nasal cavity (Pasteurella testudinis), and at least two potential pathogens in the cloaca (Pseudomonas spp., Salmonella spp.).

Dickinson, Duck, Schwalbe, Jarchow, and Trueblood: NASAL AND CLOACAL BACTERIA IN FREE-RANGING DESERT TORTOISES FROM THE WESTERN UNITED STATES

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Vanessa M. Dickinson, Timothy Duck, Cecil R. Schwalbe, James L. Jarchow, and Mark H. Trueblood "NASAL AND CLOACAL BACTERIA IN FREE-RANGING DESERT TORTOISES FROM THE WESTERN UNITED STATES," Journal of Wildlife Diseases 37(2), 252-257, (1 April 2001). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-37.2.252

Received: 29 December 1998; Published: 1 April 2001

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