Characteristics of MDR E. coli strains isolated from Pet Dogs with clinic diarrhea: A pool of antibiotic resistance genes and virulence-associated genes (IMAGE)

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Characteristics of MDR E. coli strains isolated from Pet Dogs with clinic diarrhea: A pool of antibiotic resistance genes and virulence-associated genes

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Pet dogs with diarrhea may be shedding multi-drug resistant E.coli in 5 in 10 cases, with potential risks to their human owners.

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Yuan et al., CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). This figure was made using public domain images from Unsplash, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

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