ABSTRACT
The conjunctiva plays a role in tear dynamics, immunological protection of the eye, ocular movement, and corneal healing. Bacteria can be cultured from the conjunctival sac in 70-90% of normal dogs. Gram positive aerobes are the most commonly cultured; than Gram negative bacteria and, seldom, anaerobes. In this study, we wanted to isolate ocular conjuntiva’s microoganisms from Cebus apella and Alouatta caraya.. There were used eight Cebus apella (six females and two males) and four Alouatta caraya (three males and one female), without ocular and clinical pathology, obtained from the fauna capture from the APM Manso´s reservoir, MT, Brazil, Tapiti Operation. The samples were obtained from the both eyes, with sterile swab, rubbing the palpebral conjunctiva. The material were kept in BHI and spread in ram blood Agar and McConkey Agar, and incubated in aerobiose and anaerobiose environment for 24 hours. After this, there was done Gram´s stain. There were isolated Proteus manganella in both eyes from the same animal from Cebus apella, and Klebsiella sp. on the right eye of two animals and on the left eye of the other Cebus apella and isolated Proteus manganella on the right eye from the one Alouatta caraya. It was supposed that Gram negatives bacterias are most common at the Cebus apella and Alouatta caraya ocular conjunctiva microbiota. These bacteria can be normal flora because clincs signs, as conjunctivites, were not observed. It will good that new studies with more animals were done.
KEY WORDS:
Microbiota; conjunctival; ocular; Cebus apella; Alouatta caraya.
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