Multidrug resistance in Escherichia coli has become a worrying issue that is increasingly
observed in human but also in veterinary medicine worldwide. E. coli is intrinsically …

With the induction of various emerging environmental contaminants such as antibiotic
resistance genes (ARGs), environment is considered as a key indicator for the spread of …

The study of urban birds has increased exponentially in the last century. A prior review of the
scientific literature up to the year 2000 found 100 research articles on urban birds, but in the …

Enteric illnesses remain the second largest source of communicable diseases worldwide,
and wild birds are suspected sources for human infection. This has led to efforts to reduce …

Antimicrobial resistance is a quintessential One Health issue, among the most serious 21st
century global threats to human health. Seabirds may act as sentinels of natural and …

Urban environments are evolutionarily novel and differ from natural environments in many
respects including food and/or water availability, predation, noise, light, air quality …

In order to describe the role of wild birds and pigeons in the transmission of shiga toxigenic
Escherichia coli (STEC) and enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) to humans and other …

Abstract Knowledge of pathogen ecology, including the impacts of environmental factors on
pathogen and host dynamics, is essential for determining the risk that zoonotic pathogens …

Psittacine birds have been identified as reservoirs of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli, a
subset of pathogens associated with mortality of children in tropical countries. The role of …

Wild animals are increasingly reported as carriers of antibiotic-resistant and pathogenic
bacteria including Enterobacteriaceae. However, the role of free-living birds as reservoirs for …