One Health: Urban birds peck up resistant pathogens.

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Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 2B4, Canada; McGill Genome Centre, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 0G1, Canada; Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science, Montreal, QC H3A 1B1, Canada; McGill Centre for Microbiome Research, Montreal, QC H3A 0G1, Canada. Electronic address:

Published: September 2024

A spatial-genomic analysis reveals that bird species living closer to humans have higher diversity of the pathogen Campylobacter and its antimicrobial resistance genes. This suggests that urbanization could promote pathogen transmission among wild animals and, potentially, humans.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.07.075DOI Listing

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