Spectrum of Bacterial Isolates from Captive Non-Human Primates in Jos Wild Life Park

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“…Isolation of potentially zoonotic pathogenic bacteria in apparently healthy NHPs has been reported in West Africa (Okwori et al, 2014(Okwori et al, , 2013. The number of transmission routes, such as faecal-oral or through bites (Devaux et al, 2019) highlights the risk of the exchange of pathogenic bacteria between human and NHPs.…”

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“…The exchange of ARB between human and NHPs in close proximity threatens not only human health but also animal health (Albuquerque et al., 2020 ). Given the reports of apparently healthy NHPs harbouring zoonotic bacteria pathogens (Egbetade et al., 2020 ; Okwori et al., 2014 , 2013 ), it becomes important to conduct surveillance on the oral and rectal bacteria and their antimicrobial susceptibility profile of NHPs to provide information relevant to public health and NHP conservation. In this study, we therefore characterized the oral and rectal bacteria of NHPs in Ghana and determined their antimicrobial susceptibility profile.…”

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Antimicrobial susceptibility profile of oral and rectal microbiota of non‐human primate species in Ghana: A threat to human health

Adade,

Tawiah,

Roos

et al. 2023

Veterinary Medicine & Sci

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BackgroundThe potential for the transfer of zoonotic diseases, including bacteria between human and non‐human primates (NHPs), is expected to rise. It is posited that NHPs that live in close contact with humans serve as sentinels and reservoirs for antibiotic‐resistant bacteria.ObjectivesThe objective was to characterize the oral and rectal bacteria in Ghanaian NHPs and profile the antimicrobial susceptibility of the isolated bacteria.MethodsOral and rectal swabs were obtained from 40 immobilized wild and captive NHPs from 7 locations in Ghana. Standard bacteriological procedures were used in the isolation, preliminary identification, automated characterization and antimicrobial susceptibility test (AST) of bacteria using the Vitek 2 Compact system.ResultsGram‐negative bacteria dominated isolates from the rectal swabs (n = 76, 85.4%), whereas Gram‐positive bacteria were more common in the oral swabs (n = 41, 82%). Staphylococcus haemolyticus (n = 7, 14%) was the most occurring bacterial species isolated from the oral swabs, whereas Escherichia coli (n = 32, 36%) dominated bacteria isolates from rectal swabs. Enterobacter spp. had the highest (39%) average phenotypic resistance to antimicrobials that were used for AST, whereas a trend of high resistance was recorded against norfloxacin, Ampicillin and Tetracycline in Gram‐negative bacteria. Similarly, among Gram‐positive bacteria, Staphylococcus spp. had the highest (25%) average phenotypic resistance to antimicrobials used for AST, and a trend of high resistance was recorded against penicillin G and oxacillin.ConclusionsThis study has established that apparently healthy NHPs that live in anthropized environments in Ghana harbour zoonotic and antimicrobial resistant bacteria.

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