Urbanization spreads antimicrobial resistant enteric pathogens in wild bird microbiomes
Evangelos Mourkas, José O. Valdebenito, Hannah Marsh, Matthew D. Hitchings, Kerry K. Cooper, Craig Thomas Parker, Tamás Székely, Håkan Johansson, Patrik Ellström, Ben Pascoe, Jonas Waldenström, Samuel Keir Sheppard
The paper investigates how urbanization affects the spread of antimicrobial resistant Campylobacter jejuni in wild birds, finding a positive correlation between urban proximity and AMR gene prevalence.
bioRxiv · Jul 11, 2023 · PreprintGenomics