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[PDF] ANAEROBIC AND AEROBIC BACTERIOLOGY OF THE SALIVA AND GINGIVA FROM 16 CAPTIVE KOMODO DRAGONS (VARANUS KOMODOENSIS): NEW IMPLICATIONS FOR THE “BACTERIA AS VENOM” MODEL | Semantic Scholar

@inproceedings{Goldstein2013ANAEROBICAA,
  title={ANAEROBIC AND AEROBIC BACTERIOLOGY OF THE SALIVA AND GINGIVA FROM 16 CAPTIVE KOMODO DRAGONS (VARANUS KOMODOENSIS): NEW IMPLICATIONS FOR THE “BACTERIA AS VENOM” MODEL},
  author={Ellie J. C. Goldstein and Kerin L. Tyrrell and Diane M. Citron and Cathleen R. Cox and Ian M. Recchio and Ben Okimoto and Judith Bryja and Bryan Grieg Fry},
  booktitle={Journal of zoo and wildlife medicine},
  year={2013},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:9932073}
}

As with other carnivores, captive Komodo oral flora is simply reflective of the gut and skin flora of their recent meals and environment and is unlikely to cause rapid fatal infection.

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