Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Deterministic processes structure bacterial genetic communities across an urban landscape

  • J. M. Hassell,
  • M. J. Ward,
  • D. Muloi,
  • J. M. Bettridge,
  • H. Phan,
  • T. P. Robinson,
  • A. Ogendo,
  • T. Imboma,
  • J. Kiiru,
  • S. Kariuki,
  • M. Begon,
  • E. K. Kang’ethe,
  • M. E. J. Woolhouse,
  • E. M. Fèvre

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10595-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Disease transmission is particularly complex at the human-livestock-wildlife interface. Here the authors sample E. coli from wild birds near households in Nairobi and show that antimicrobial resistance gene diversity is correlated with human and lifestock density, while virulence gene diversity is correlated with avian species richness.