›› 2018, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (8): 2341-2346.doi: 10.16431/j.cnki.1671-7236.2018.08.037

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Isolation, Identification and Drug Resistance Analysis of Enterobacter cloacae from Asian Black Bear (Ursus thibetanus)

SU Haijun1, WANG Yeying2, HE Xinwei3, WAN Run3, WEN Ming3   

  1. 1. Research Center for Bio-diversity and Nature Conservation, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China;
    2. College of Life Science, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550025, China;
    3. College of Animal Science, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
  • Received:2018-01-29 Online:2018-08-20 Published:2018-08-15

Abstract:

To determine the cause of the death of an Asian Black bear (Ursus thibetanus) at a park zoo in Guiyang,the death Black bear internal organs were collected for bacterial isolation and culture,cell morphology observation,physiological and biochemical identification,16S rRNA gene sequence analysis and mouse infection tests.The results showed that a round,convex,smooth surface,well-defined,medium-sized milky white colony was isolated from the dead Black bear lung specimen as gram-negative bacillus by microscopy.It could utilize the glucose,sucrose,mannitol,sorbitol,and citrate,non-lactose fermentation,non-generated sulfuretted hydrogen,positive arginine decarboxylation test and negative lysine decarboxylase,consistent with the biochemical characteristics of Enterobacter cloacae.1 419 bp fragments were generated by 16S rRNA primer amplification,and the similarity reached to 99.9% with the sequences of Enterobacter cloacae by BLAST comparison with the sequences on NCBI.Mice were inoculated intraperitoneally with the isolated bacteria,and the mice were lethal.The median lethal dose (LD50) was 7.94×108 CFU/mL.Drug susceptibility testing found that the isolates maintained high sensitivity to commonly used antimicrobial agents such as amikacin,ofloxacin,norfloxacin and ciprofloxacin.The results of this test showed that Enterobacter cloacae caused the death of the Asian Black bear.

Key words: Ursus thibetanus; Enterobacter cloacae; isolation; identification

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