Figure 1.
Swabbing the oral cavity of a blacktip shark.
Table 1.
Antibiotics tested against isolated bacteria for susceptibility.
Table 2.
Comparison bacteriology and antibiotic resistant within the oral flora of multiple shark species using data from previously published literature [15].
Table 3.
Bacteria isolated in the oral cavity of blacktip sharksa.
Table 4.
Gender comparison of bacteria and antibiotic resistance.
Figure 2.
Correlation between the fork length (cm) with the mean number of resistant antibiotics per shark.
Table 5.
Antibiotic susceptibilities (%) for gram-negative bacteria isolated in the oral cavity of blacktip sharksa.
Table 6.
Antibiotic susceptibilities (%) for gram-positive bacteria isolated in the oral cavity of blacktip sharksa.
Figure 3.
Level of antibiotic resistance in the oral flora of blacktip sharks.
Figure 4.
Upper right jaw of blacktip shark.