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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language: HI" lang="EN-GB">Screening of potential human pathogens from the ghost crab, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Ocypode platytarsis</i> (<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">H. Milne Edwards, 1852) and evaluation of antibiotic resistance</span></span>

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Title Screening of potential human pathogens from the ghost crab, Ocypode platytarsis (H. Milne Edwards, 1852) and evaluation of antibiotic resistance
 
Creator Sankar., Siva R
Sumitha., J
Kaviarasan., T
Yogamoorthi., A
 
Subject Hemolymph
Crab
Bacteria
Marine Agar
 
Description 244-248
Bacteria associated with hemolymph, gut and muscle of Ocypode platytarsis were investigated
using three different agar media such as seawater yeast extract peptone agar,
zobell marine agar and nutrient agar. Among them, sea water yeast extract peptone agar provided an excellent growth opportunity to the bacteria and showed
higher counts. A
total 117 bacterial isolates were obtained from 40 ghost crabs representing totally 9
bacterial species, comprising of the Gram-positive coccus,
Gram-negative bacilli, Gram-positive rod and Gram-negative rod. Micrococcus was
the dominant genus found in all parts of ghost crab, O. platytarsis. Further,
the antibiotics such as chloramphenicol, ciprofloxacin and gentamycin showed
excellent susceptibility against all the bacterial species, whereas the
bacterial strain isolated from the crab are resistant to amoxicillin, nalidixic
acid and oxacillin. Results indicate that the bacteria associated with O. platytarsis are considered as potential human pathogens
and some of the isolates were resistant to antibiotics.
 
Date 2013-04-13T11:54:31Z
2013-04-13T11:54:31Z
2013-04
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/16944
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.42(2) [April 2013]