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Table 9 Contamination controls used in this study

From: Aerobic bacterial flora of biotic and abiotic compartments of a hyperendemic Zoonotic Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (ZCL) focus

Contamination sources

Isolated bacteria

No.

Sandflies

The rest of the body (other than gut lumen)

Microbacterium paraoxydans

3

R. opimus

Wild

Alimentary canal of a dissected R. opimus

Enterobacter ludwigii

1

Klebsiella oxytoca

1

Skin surface of R. opimus used for blood feeding of entraped sandflies from a rodent colony in the Abbas-abad village of Badrood city

Enterococcus faecalis

1

Skin surface of R. opimus used for blood feeding of entraped sandflies from a semi-desolated cattle farm in the Abbas-abad village in the Bad-rood city

Escherichia coli

1

Enterococcus faecalis

1

Skin surface of R. opimus used for blood feeding of entraped sandflies from an uninhabited home in the Parvaneh village of Habib-abad district

Enterobacter ludwigii

1

Animal house

Skin surface of R. opimus reared in the Isfahan Health Research Station animal house.

Acinetobacter calcoaceticus

1

Bacillus atrophaeus

1

Bacillus sonorensis

1

Bacillus amyloliquefaciens

1

Enterococcus gallinarum

2

Paenibacillus dendritiformis

1

Enterococcus faecalis

1

Environmental

Medium contamination due to lab condition

Staphylococcus epidermidis

1

Total

18