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Reptile trade and chelonians-associated Salmonellosis in humans: A public health concern.
Comp Immunol Microbiol Infect Dis
January 2025
Laboratory of Epidemio-surveillance, Health, Production & Reproduction, Cell Therapy of Domestic and Wild Animals, Department of Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Nature and Life Sciences, University of Chadli Bendjedid, El Tarf 36000, Algeria.
Animal trade has become a serious criminal practice in the world. Every day thousands of exotic wild animals, including reptiles, are farmed and sold worldwide. The illegal collection of turtles and tortoises remains completely unsupervised and represents a big challenge for responsible authorities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEmergence and genomic characteristics of multi-drug-resistant in pet turtles and children with diarrhoea.
Microb Genom
January 2024
NHC Key Laboratory of Food Safety Risk Assessment, China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, Beijing, PR China.
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- 9.6% of pet turtles tested positive for Salmonella, with the dominant strain being Salmonella Thompson; a concerning 80.4% of these strains were multi-drug resistant.
- The study found that Salmonella strains from turtles were closely related to those from infected children, suggesting possible transmission between species and indicating a pressing public health issue.
Case Report: Non-typhoidal infections transmitted by reptiles and amphibians.
Front Pediatr
November 2023
Pediatrics I, Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
Non-typhoidal infections (NTSI) can cause bacterial diarrhea, mostly leading to self-limiting gastroenteritis. However, in at-risk populations, NTSI can have severe complications. As transmission is most commonly foodborne, infection is rare in the breast- or bottle-fed very young.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFin reptiles: a review of occurrence, interactions, shedding and risk factors for human infections.
Front Cell Dev Biol
September 2023
Laboklin GmbH and Co., KG, Bad Kissingen, Germany.
are considered a part of the normal reptile gut microbiota, but have also been associated with disease in reptiles. Reptile-associated salmonellosis (RAS) can pose a serious health threat to humans, especially children, and an estimated 6% of human sporadic salmonellosis cases have been attributed to direct or indirect contact with reptiles, although the exact number is not known. Two literature searches were conducted for this review.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMultistate outbreak of turtle-associated salmonellosis highlights ongoing challenges with the illegal sale and distribution of small turtles.
Zoonoses Public Health
December 2023
Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
The sale and distribution of small turtles (shell length <4 inches) as pets has been banned in the United States since 1975 because of the risk of Salmonella transmission, especially to children. Despite this 48-year-old ban, salmonellosis outbreaks continue to be linked to contact with small turtles. During investigations of turtle-associated outbreaks, information regarding the turtle farm of origin is difficult to obtain because turtles are commonly sold by transient vendors.
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