Carriage of antibiotic resistance genes to treatments for chlamydial disease in koalas (<i>Phascolarctos cinereus</i>): A comparison of occurrence before and during catastrophic wildfires.

"data included fire season status koala location koala sex history of antibiotic administration chlamydial disease clinical signs scores and diagnostic qpcr results (supplementary data 1) 2 3 prior to antibiotic resistance gene screening all dna samples ( n = 534) underwent a 16s rrna pcr to confirm competency and suitability for inclusion in further analyses.; intervals for differences excluding 0 imply significantly different proportions3 3 1 following 16s rrna pcr 485 of 534 koala dna samples from the different locations were deemed to be pcr competent and were included in this study ( table 1 and individual koala data in supplementary data 1).; individual koala cat and tet data is provided in supplementary data 1.; all individual koala data is provided in supplementary data 1 and all cat and tet diversity data is summarised in supplementary table s2.; chlamydial infection status as determined by qpcr was unavailable for the mlr koalas however physical examination chlamydial scores were provided with two cat or tet positive koalas showing clinical signs of chlamydial disease (supplementary data 1).; appendix a supplementary data supplementary material 1 image 1 supplementary material 2 image 2 data availability all data for individual koalas is provided in a supplementary file (supplementary data 1) and additional pcr methods and data tables are provided in a supplementary tables file (supplementary tables)."

"Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests: Michelle Power reports financial support was provided by 10.13039/100001250Morris Animal Foundation. Natasha Speight reports financial support was provided by 10.13039/100001250Morris Animal Foundation."

"Funding This study was funded by the 10.13039/100001250Morris Animal Foundation (Grant No. D21ZO-507 to Michelle Power and Grant No. D21ZO-506 to Natasha Speight)."