Image of the Day: Resistant Reptile

Many of the gut bacteria of Indonesian tokay geckos (Gekko gecko) are resistant to antibiotics, posing a potential health hazard to people who own them as pets.

The Scientist Staff

May 15, 2015 | 1 min read

(See “The carriage of antibiotic resistance by enteric bacteria from imported tokay geckos (Gekko gecko) destined for the pet trade,” Science of the Total Environment, 2015.)

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