Antibiotic-resistance patterns of enteric bacteria of wild mammals on the Krakatau Islands and West Java, Indonesia ...

• Main Authors: Graves, S. R., Kennelly-Merrit, S. A., Tidemann, C.R., Rawlinson, P. A., Harvey, K. J., Thornton, I. W. B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 1988
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Mammalia; Chiroptera; Chordata; Animalia; bats; bat; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13484340; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13484340

(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Apart from feral pigs on Panjang, rats ( Rattus rattus and Rattus tiomanicus ) and bats (various families, genera and species) are the only mammals resident on the Krakatau Islands. The two species of rat occur on separate islands, R. rattus on Rakata and R. tiomanicus on Panjang and Sertung. Both occur on Java. Of the two genera of bats examined, species of Cynopterus were found on Java and all the Krakatau islands, whereas Myotis muricola muricola was detected only on Java and Rakata. The main faecal bacteria of these mammals were shown to be Escherichia coli and species of Klebsiella , Enterobacter and Citrobacter , with other bacteria (e.g. Proteus sp., Pseudomonas sp., Aeromonas sp., Serratia sp., Proteus/ Providenca sp., Morganella sp. and Streptococcus faecalis ) being present in only a minority of individuals Significant differences were noted between the faecal floras of the two rat species. E. coli was always present in R. rattus , but was less ...