No evidence for transmission of antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli strains from humans to wild western lowland gorillas in Lopé National Park, Gabon

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4281-4287

  Benavides, Julio Andre ^a,b   Godreuil, Sylvain ^c,d   Bodenham, Rebecca ^a   Ratiarison, Sandra ^e   Devos, Céline ^e   Petretto, Marie Odile ^e   Raymond, Michel ^a   Escobar Páramo, Patricia ^a,f  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c MONTPELLIER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d University de Montpellier   (France)

^e ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL ISOLATES; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CRITICALLY ENDANGERED; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOMESTIC ANIMALS; E. COLI; ECO-TOURISMS; GENE EXCHANGE; GENETIC BACKGROUNDS; GREAT APES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMAN DENSITY; LOW LEVEL; NATIONAL PARKS; PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS; RESISTANT BACTERIA; WILD ANIMALS; WILDLIFE POPULATIONS;

ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES;

ANIMALS;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOTOURISM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENE TRANSFER; HOMINID; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; PHYLOGENETICS; POPULATION DENSITY; RESEARCH WORK; RISK FACTOR; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GABON; GORILLA; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GABON; GORILLA GORILLA; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY;

GABON; LOPE NATIONAL PARK; OGOOUE IVINDO;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; GORILLA GORILLA GORILLA; HOMINIDAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84864105714     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.07593-11     Document Type: Article

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