Antibiotics threaten wildlife: Circulating quinolone residues and disease in avian scavengers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Lemus, Jesús Á ^a   Blanco, Guillermo ^b   Grande, Javier ^b   Arroyo, Bernardo ^b   García Montijano, Marino ^c   Martínez, Felíx ^b  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^c Gir Diagnostics SL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; ENROFLOXACIN; OXYTETRACYCLINE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; DRUG RESIDUE; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE;

AEGYPIUS MONACHUS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG LIVER LEVEL; GYPS FULVUS; HEALTH SURVEY; KIDNEY INJURY; LIVER INJURY; LIVESTOCK; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; MORTALITY; MYCOSIS; NEOPHRON PERCNOPTERUS; NONHUMAN; SPAIN; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION; ANIMAL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; WILD ANIMAL;

AEGYPIUS MONACHUS; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GYPS FULVUS; NEOPHRON PERCNOPTERUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIRDS; DRUG RESIDUES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; QUINOLONES;

EID: 39049171101     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001444     Document Type: Article

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