ESBL/AmpC-Producing Escherichia coli in Wild Boar: Epidemiology and Risk Factors.

ABSTRACT: The complex health problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) involves many host species, numerous bacteria and several routes of transmission. Extended-spectrum β-lactamase and AmpC (ESBL/AmpC)-producing Escherichia coli are among the most important strains. Moreover, wildlife hosts are of interest as they are likely antibiotics free and are assumed as environmental indicators of AMR contamination. Particularly, wild boar (Sus scrofa) deserves attention because of its increased population densities, with consequent health risks at the wildlife-domestic-human interface, and the limited data available on AMR. Here, 1504 wild boar fecal samples were microbiologically and molecularly analyzed to investigate ESBL/AmpC-producing E. coli and, through generalized linear models

SUBMITTER: Formenti N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8300396 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature