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The role of gulls (Laridae) in the emergence and spreading of antibiotic resistance in the environment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2016

D. LJUBOJEVIĆ ,
V. RADOSAVLJEVIĆ  and
D. MILANOV
D. LJUBOJEVIĆ*
Affiliation:
Scientific Veterinary Institute “Novi Sad”, Rumenački put 20, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
V. RADOSAVLJEVIĆ
Affiliation:
Institute of Veterinary Medicine of Serbia, Vojvode Toze 14, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
D. MILANOV
Affiliation:
Scientific Veterinary Institute “Novi Sad”, Rumenački put 20, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
*
Corresponding author: ljubojevic.ljubojevicd.dragana@gmail.com;dragana@niv.ns.ac.rs
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Abstract

The importance of gulls as bioindicators, reservoirs and vectors of Escherichia coli strains resistant to the older generation of antibiotics, broad spectrum cephalosporins and fluoroquinolones is reviewed in the following paper. The aim is to highlight the fact that they could be a hot spot for the development of new resistance types. Even though gulls do not naturally come into contact with antibiotics, they are omnivorous and they often eat food in agricultural, rural and urban areas so they can be infected with resistant strains from livestock or human sources which they can spread again into the environment. They may then come into contact with poultry kept under free range conditions. More intensive investigations of this subject are required, as well as the need to find accurate and reliable preventive measures, are demonstrated in the present paper.

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antibiotic resistancebioindicatorsEscherichia coligullsreservoirszoonotic hazards

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World's Poultry Science Journal , Volume 72 , Issue 4 , December 2016 , pp. 853 - 864
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Copyright © World's Poultry Science Association 2016 

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