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Transmission of antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli between cattle, humans and the environment in peri-urban livestock keeping communities in Morogoro, Tanzania.
Preventive veterinary medicine - 1 Mar 2015
Lupindu Athumani M, Dalsgaard Anders, Msoffe Peter L M, Ngowi Helena A, Mtambo Madundo M, Olsen John E
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Urban and peri-urban livestock farming is expanding world-widely because of increased urbanization and demands for food of animal origin. Such farming practices pose a public health risk as livestock are reservoirs of several zoonotic pathogens. In an attempt to determine the fecal transmission between livestock and people, 100 household clusters keeping cattle in close proximity of humans were selected in urban...
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