How wild are wild mammals?

Monica Österblad, Kai Norrdahl, Erkki Korpimäki and Pentti Huovinen
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Monica Österblad: Antimicrobial Research Laboratory, National Public Health Institute
Kai Norrdahl: Section of Ecology, University of Turku
Erkki Korpimäki: Section of Ecology, University of Turku
Pentti Huovinen: Antimicrobial Research Laboratory, National Public Health Institute

Nature, 2001, vol. 409, issue 6816, 37-38

Abstract: Abstract In bacteria associated with humans, antimicrobial resistance is common, both in clinical isolates and in the less-studied commensal flora, and it is thought that commensal and environmental bacteria might be a hidden reservoir of resistance. Gilliver et al. have reported that resistance is also prevalent in faecal bacteria from wild rodents living in northwest England1. Here we test the faeces of moose, deer and vole in Finland and find an almost complete absence of resistance in enterobacteria. Resistance is thus not a universal property of enterobacterial populations, but may be a result of the human use of antibiotics.

Date: 2001
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