Gulls as sources of environmental contamination by colistin-resistant bacteria

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• who: Alan B. Franklin from the Department University, Linku00f6ping, Sweden, have published the paper: Gulls as Sources of Environmental Contamination by Colistin-resistant Bacteria, in the Journal: Scientific Reports Scientific Reports
• what: The authors provided evidence that ring-billed gulls may be readily colonized with at least one strain of mcr-1 positive E. coli, exhibit shedding patterns indicative of bridge hosts, shed bacteria in feces for an extended period (e_g, 16 days), which can be detected in the environment for even longer (e_g, 29 days), and are able to infect conspecifics occupying shared environments . . .
  

   

  

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