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Gastrointestinal bacterial transmission among humans, mountain gorillas, and livestock in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda.
Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology - 1 Dec 2008
Rwego Innocent B, Isabirye-Basuta Gilbert, Gillespie Thomas R, Goldberg Tony L
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Habitat overlap can increase the risks of anthroponotic and zoonotic pathogen transmission between humans, livestock, and wild apes. We collected Escherichia coli bacteria from humans, livestock, and mountain gorillas (Gorilla gorilla beringei) in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda, from May to August 2005 to examine whether habitat overlap influences rates and patterns of pathogen transmission between...
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