Microbial pollution in wildlife: Linking agricultural manuring and bacterial antibiotic resistance in red-billed choughs

Environmental Research

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 405-412

  Blanco, Guillermo ^a   Lemus, Jesús A ^a   Grande, Javier ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Antibiotics; Bacterial resistance; Birds; Manuring; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFALEXIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; ENROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; LINCOMYCIN; MARBOFLOXACIN; NEOMYCIN; OXYTETRACYCLINE; PROCAINE PENICILLIN;

ANTIBIOTICS; BIRD; MANURE; MICROORGANISM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIRD; CORYNEBACTERIUM; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES MICROFLORA; KLEBSIELLA; LIVESTOCK; MANURE; MICROCOCCUS; NONHUMAN; PIG FARMING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS VULGARIS; SALMONELLA; SLUDGE; SOIL POLLUTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS; URBAN AREA; WILD ANIMAL; WILDLIFE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DRUG RESIDUES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; MALE; MANURE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SONGBIRDS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; PYRRHOCORAX PYRRHOCORAX; SUIDAE;

EID: 64749116345     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2009.01.007     Document Type: Article

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