title: Isolations of aerobic bacteria from wild desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni and O. c. mexicana) in Arizona.
abstract: Nasal, pharyngeal, cervical and vaginal swab specimens were obtained from 74 desert bighorn sheep for the purpose of investigating the normal aerobic bacterial flora of wild sheep. A total of 281 isolates was obtained and identified by standard microbiologic tests. One hundred seven of these isolates were gram positive and included Bacillus sp. (36%), Staphylococcus epidermidis (8%), S. aureus (4%), Corynebacterium sp. (diphtheroids, 4%), and Streptococcus sp. (48%). gram negative isolates totaled 174 and included Neisseria sp. (18%), Citrobacter sp. (3%), Enterobacter sp. (2%), Escherichia coli (2%), Proteus sp. (2%) and non-fermentative bacilli (NFB) (73%). Of the NFB isolates, Pseudomonas sp. (25%), Acinetobacter sp. (18%), Moraxella sp. (15%) were identified.
mesh_terms: D000332:Aerobiosis; D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild; D001130:Arizona; D001419:Bacteria / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D002584:Cervix Uteri / Q000382:microbiology; D005260:Female; D009297:Nasal Mucosa / Q000382:microbiology; D010614:Pharynx / Q000382:microbiology; D012756:Sheep / Q000382:microbiology*; D014621:Vagina / Q000382:microbiology