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Forest Fragmentation as Cause of Bacterial Transmission among Nonhuman Primates, Humans, and Livestock, Uganda

We conducted a prospective study of bacterial transmission among humans, nonhuman primates (primates hereafter), and livestock in western Uganda. Humans living near forest fragments harbored Escherichia coli bacteria that were ≈75% more similar to bacteria from primates in those fragments than to ba...

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Autores principales: Goldberg, Tony L., Gillespie, Thomas R., Rwego, Innocent B., Estoff, Elizabeth L., Chapman, Colin A.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2603117/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18760003
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1409.071196