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.
FLICKR, THOMAS WANHOFF
(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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