Urban Wildlife Crisis: Australian Silver Gull Is a Bystander Host to Widespread Clinical Antibiotic Resistance

Urban Wildlife Crisis: Australian Silver Gull Is a Bystander Host to Widespread Clinical Antibiotic Resistance

ABSTRACT The Australian silver gull is an urban-adapted species that frequents anthropogenic waste sites. The enterobacterial flora of synanthropic birds often carries antibiotic resistance genes. Whole-genome sequence analyses of 425 Escherichia coli isolates from cloacal swabs of chicks inhabiting...

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Main Authors: Ethan R. Wyrsch, Kristina Nesporova, Hassan Tarabai, Ivana Jamborova, Ibrahim Bitar, Ivan Literak, Monika Dolejska, Steven P. Djordjevic
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2022-06-01
Series:mSystems
Subjects:
AMR
Escherichia coli
genomics
wildlife
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msystems.00158-22

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