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Pathogen transmission risk by opportunistic gulls moving across human landscapes.
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- Commensal and opportunistic bacteria resistant to fourth-generation cephalosporins or fluoroquinolones isolated from yellow-legged gulls (Larus michahellis) settled in Taranto, Southern Italy.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Smart Bioaerosol Monitoring: Advanced Sampling and Sensing across Environmental, Clinical, and Industrial Domains.ACS omega · 2026Review
- From Barns to Bushes: Exploring the ECOFF-Based Non-Wild-Type Status of Campylobacter spp. in Pets, Livestock, Synanthropic Birds and Wild Animals in Northwestern Italy.Zoonoses and public health · 2026Article
- Detection of Zoonotic Photobacterium damselae Subspecies damselae in a Razorbill (Alca torda): The First Report of a Potential Cross-Species Transmission in Birds.Environmental microbiology reports · 2026Article
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- Partial Niche Partitioning in Three Sympatric Gull Species Through Foraging Areas and Habitat Selection.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Induced breeding failure alters movements, migratory phenology, and opportunities for pathogen spread in an urban gull population.Movement ecology · 2025Article
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- Dirty habits: potential for spread of antibiotic-resistance by black-headed gulls from waste-water treatment plants.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2024Article
- Rapid loss of maternal immunity and increase in environmentally mediated antibody generation in urban gulls.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Gulls in Porto Coastline as Reservoirs forMicroorganisms · 2023Article
- Detection and Phylogenetic Analysis of Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase (ESBL)-Genetic Determinants in Gram-Negative Fecal-Microbiota of Wild Birds and Chicken Originated at Trimmu Barrage.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Changes in the feeding ecology of an opportunistic predator inhabiting urban environments in response to COVID-19 lockdown.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Multiresistant Enterobacteriaceae in yellow-legged gull chicks in their first weeks of life.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Climate Change Impacts on Microbiota in Beach Sand and Water: Looking Ahead.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Prevalence and Antimicrobial Resistance of Enteropathogenic Bacteria in Yellow-Legged Gulls (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
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Abstract
Wildlife that exploit human-made habitats hosts and spreads bacterial pathogens. This shapes the epidemiology of infectious diseases and facilitates pathogen spill-over between wildlife and humans. This is a global problem, yet little is known about the dissemination potential of pathogen-infected animals. By combining molecular pathogen diagnosis with GPS tracking of pathogen-infected gulls, we show how this knowledge gap could be filled at regional scales. Specifically, we generated pathogen risk maps of Salmonella, Campylobacter and Chlamydia based on the spatial movements of pathogen-infected yellow-legged gulls (Larus michahellis) equipped with GPS recorders. Also, crossing this spatial information with habitat information, we identified critical habitats for the potential transmission of these bacteria in southern Europe. The use of human-made habitats by infected-gulls could potentially increase the potential risk of direct and indirect bidirectional transmission of pathogens between humans and wildlife. Our findings show that pathogen-infected wildlife equipped with GPS recorders can provide accurate information on the spatial spread risk for zoonotic bacteria. Integration of GPS-tracking with classical epidemiological approaches may help to improve zoonosis surveillance and control programs.
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