Bacterial zoonosis

Salmonellosis

It's the most important zoonosis.

• infectious agent: a bacterium: Salmella sp.  More than 25% of the reptiles ?(mostly aquatic turtles and lizards, but all the reptiles) would be carriers of salmonella. More than 2400 different serotypes can be found. All are potentially a zoonosis.
• animal disease:
  • most of the time, they are healthy carriers. Salmonellas are normal hosts of the digestive tract of reptiles for which they are not pathogenic.
  • sometimes gastroenteritis
  • sometimes other infectious diseases
• Mean of contamination:
  • contact mouth-to-hands or mouth-to-pet soiled by droppings  or water (aquatic turtles)
  • contact with rodents used as food for reptiles (200 cases in the UK in 2008-2009)
• human desease : 
  
  • gastroenteritis
  • in fragile people (young children under 5 years old, sick people, older people, immuno-depressed people), septicemia  and death.

Complete list of reptiles zoonosis

Prevention

Prevention can be summarized by three words: HYGIEN, HYGIEN, HYGIEN

     

NO                                                                         YES