ReviewBiology letters2016
'Disperse abroad in the land': the role of wildlife in the dissemination of antimicrobial resistance.
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118 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Antimicrobial resistance in wild game mammals: a glimpse into the contamination of wild habitats in a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC veterinary research · 2025Pooled it
- Whole Genome Characterization of Klebsiella Strains in European Hedgehogs and Human Nosocomial Settings Identified Shared Sequence Types, Antimicrobial Resistance Genes and Plasmids.Zoonoses and public health · 2026Article
- Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria in South Atlantic Cetaceans over a Decade of Surveillance.Microorganisms · 2026Article
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- A global analysis of the inclusion of wildlife in national action plans for antimicrobial resistance.JAC-antimicrobial resistance · 2026Article
- Antimicrobial Resistance and Biofilm in Bacteria from Rehabilitated Sapajus libidinosus.EcoHealth · 2026Article
- Tick-vectored mobilization of antibiotic resistance genes: transboundary dissemination across wildlife-livestock-vector-environment interfaces.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2026Article
- Prevalence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Australian wild birds, native wildlife, livestock and domestic animals.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Antimicrobial resistance phenotypes of E. coli from livestock and wildlife in Wyoming, U.S.A.BMC veterinary research · 2026Article
- Prevalence and patterns of antimicrobial resistance among wildlife populations in Africa: a systematic review.npj antimicrobials and resistance · 2026Article
- Phenotypic Antimicrobial Resistance of Some Bacterial Strains Isolated from Red Foxes (Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Mobilome-driven antimicrobial resistance in a one health context: evidence and lessons from Africa.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2026Review
- Spatiotemporal patterns of antimicrobial resistance in shared human-animal waterpoints in the Maasai Mara Ecosystem, Kenya.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- The 2024 WHO bacterial priority pathogens list: a critical evolution from a global One Health perspective.Science in One Health · 2026Review
- Antibiotic Resistance to Critically Important Antimicrobials and Virulence Genes inVeterinary sciences · 2025Article
- Insights into structure, toxicity and antibacterial potential of tungsten oxide-carbon nanocomposites coupled with antibiotics.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Environmental factors driving antimicrobial resistance in Indian flying foxes (Pteropus medius): one health implications.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- A One-Health Perspective of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR): Human, Animals and Environmental Health.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- A comprehensive computer-based assessment of Deacetylnomilin as an inhibitor for antibiotic-resistant genes identified from the whole genome sequence of the multidrug-resistant Enterobacter cloacae isolate 1382.Molecular diversity · 2025Article
- Resisting the Final Line: Phenotypic Detection of Resistance to Last-Resort Antimicrobials in Gram-Negative Bacteria Isolated from Wild Birds in Northern Italy.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
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Abstract
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been detected in the microbiota of many wildlife species, including long-distance migrants. Inadequately treated wastes from humans and livestock dosed with antimicrobial drugs are often assumed to be the main sources of AMR to wildlife. While wildlife populations closely associated with human populations are more likely to harbour clinically important AMR related to that found in local humans and livestock, AMR is still common in remote wildlife populations with little direct human influence. Most reports of AMR in wildlife are survey based and/or small scale, so researchers can only speculate on possible sources and sinks of AMR or the impact of wildlife AMR on clinical resistance. This lack of quantitative data on the flow of AMR genes and AMR bacteria across the natural environment could reflect the numerous AMR sources and amplifiers in the populated world. Ecosystems with relatively simple and well-characterized potential inputs of AMR can provide tractable, but realistic, systems for studying AMR in the natural environment. New tools, such as animal tracking technologies and high-throughput sequencing of resistance genes and mobilomes, should be integrated with existing methodologies to understand how wildlife maintains and disperses AMR.
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