Seagulls and beaches as reservoirs for multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli.
A variety of extended-spectrum Beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli isolates, with a high rate of cefotaximase-15 resistance, were identified in seagull feces from Porto, Portugal, beaches. Beaches may therefore present a risk to public health because of the potential pathogen-spreading capacity of migratory birds.
Simões
Roméo Rocha
RR
Hopital de Bicetre, Bicetre 94275, France.
Poirel
Laurent
L
Da Costa
Paulo Martins
PM
Nordmann
Patrice
P
D000818:Animals; D001493:Bathing Beaches; D046091:Charadriiformes / Q000382:microbiology*; D004197:Disease Reservoirs / Q000382:microbiology*; D024901:Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000235:genetics; D004927:Escherichia coli Infections / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests; D010802:Phylogeny; D011174:Portugal / Q000453:epidemiology