Disease | Pathogen | Target species | Contamination way | Zoonotic risk |
Viral zoonosis | ||||
- | - | - | - | - |
Bacterial zoonosis | ||||
Salmonellosis |
Salmonella enterica enterica |
aquatic turtles, snakes, iguanas, pogonas |
infected water
(especially in children) |
+++ |
Mycobacteriosis |
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, M.avium, M. marinum |
all species |
water | +/_ |
Enterobacterial infections |
Aeromonas spp. Enterobacter cloacae Klebsiella pneumoniae Yersinia enterocolitica Yersinia pseudotuberculosis |
all species |
infected water
(especially in children) |
+/_ |
Coxiella burnetii |
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Burkholderia pseudomallei |
iguanas |
contact | +/_ | |
Parasitic Zoonosis |
|
|
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Acariasis |
Ophionyssus natricis |
Boidae, Pythonidae, some lizards (iguana, pogona) |
direct contact | +/_ |
Rodents->snakes |
especially transcutaneous, sometimes oro-faecal |
+/_ | ||
Tapeworm infection (Sparganosis) |
Sparganum mansoni |
Snakes |
Consumption as food, eye contamination |
- in Europe +/_ in Far East |
Cryptosporidiosis |
Cryptosporidium spp. |
all species |
fecal-oral pathway |
+/_ |
Armillifer monilliformis, A. Armillifer |
snakes |
Accidental ingestion of eggs contained in the nasal discharge or snake faeces |
- in Europe +/_ in Far East |
|
Basidiobolus spp. Conidiobolus spp. |
snakes, lizards |
respiratory, rarely digestive or transcutaneous pathways |
- in Europe + in South East Asia, Africa, Latin America |
(From a traduction of a report of the French Veterinarian Academy)