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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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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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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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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0298053

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

Author Countries: China

Funding: This research was funded by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2018YFD0500900, 2016YFD0501009), the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Foundation (CPF2017-05, CPF2015-4) and the Science and Technology Achievements Transfer Project in Sichuan province (2022JDZH0026). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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