'Disperse abroad in the land': the role of wildlife in the dissemination of antimicrobial resistance

KE Arnold, NJ Williams, M Bennett - Biology Letters, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been detected in the microbiota of many wildlife species,
including long-distance migrants. Inadequately treated wastes from humans and livestock …

Potential impact of antimicrobial resistance in wildlife, environment and human health

H Radhouani, N Silva, P Poeta, C Torres… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Given the significant spatial and temporal heterogeneity in antimicrobial resistance
distribution and the factors that affect its evolution, dissemination, and persistence, it is …

Characteristics of Wild Bird Resistomes and Dissemination of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Interconnected Bird-Habitat Systems Revealed by Similarity of blaTEM …

Y Luo, L Tan, H Zhang, W Bi, L Zhao… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Wild birds are known to harbor and discharge antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) and their
associated antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). However, assessments of their contribution …

Dramatic increase in vancomycin-resistant enterococci in Germany

P Gastmeier, C Schröder, M Behnke… - Journal of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Objectives Among European countries, Germany has one of the highest proportions
of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium bloodstream infections. The aim of this study …

Assessment of listing and categorisation of animal diseases within the framework of the Animal Health Law (Regulation (EU) No 2016/429): infection with Equine …

EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare … - EFSA …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Equine Herpesvirus‐1 infection has been assessed according to the criteria of the Animal
Health Law (AHL), in particular criteria of: Article 7 on disease profile and impacts, Article 5 …

American crows as carriers of vancomycin‐resistant enterococci with vanA gene

V Oravcova, L Zurek, A Townsend… - Environmental …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We studied the vanA‐carrying vancomycin‐resistant enterococci (VRE) isolated from A
merican crows in the U nited S tates during the winter 2011/2012. Faecal samples from …

Vancomycin-resistant enterococci with vanA gene in treated municipal wastewater and their association with human hospital strains

V Oravcova, M Mihalcin, J Zakova, L Pospisilova… - Science of the Total …, 2017 - Elsevier
Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) are pathogens of increasing medical importance. In
Brno, Czech Republic, we collected 37 samples from the effluent of a wastewater treatment …

Characterization of fecal vancomycin-resistant enterococci with acquired and intrinsic resistance mechanisms in wild animals, Spain

C Lozano, D Gonzalez-Barrio, MC Camacho… - Microbial ecology, 2016 - Springer
The objectives were to evaluate the presence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci with
acquired (VRE-a) and intrinsic (VRE-i) resistance mechanisms in fecal samples from …

Patterns of bird–bacteria associations

DM Chung, E Ferree, DM Simon, PJ Yeh - Ecohealth, 2018 - Springer
Birds, with their broad geographic ranges and close association with humans, have
historically played an important role as carriers of human disease and as reservoirs for drug …

WILD BIRDS AS A POTENTIAL SOURCE OF KNOWN AND NOVEL MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPES OF ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS

D Stępień-Pyśniak, T Hauschild… - Journal of wildlife …, 2018 - meridian.allenpress.com
We assessed the antibiotic resistance and genetic diversity of 27 Enterococcus faecalis
isolates from 25 wild bird species in Poland. Resistance to lincomycin (100%) was most …