TY - JOUR AU - Simões, Roméo Rocha AU - Poirel, Laurent AU - Da Costa, Paulo Martins AU - Nordmann, Patrice T1 - Seagulls and Beaches as Reservoirs for Multidrug-Resistant Escherichia coli T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2010 VL - 16 IS - 1 SP - 110 SN - 1080-6059 AB - A variety of extended-spectrum β-lactamase–producing Escherichia coli isolates, with a high rate of cefotaximase-15 resistance, were identified in seagull feces from Porto, Portugal, beaches. Beaches may therefore present a risk to public health because of the potential pathogen-spreading capacity of migratory birds. KW - enteric infections KW - Escherichia coli KW - beta-lactamase KW - CTX-M KW - seagulls KW - beaches KW - antimicrobial resistance KW - bacteria KW - Portugal KW - dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid1601.090896 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/16/1/09-0896_article ER - End of Reference