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, sources and post-tap treatment methods), and quantity (measured in glasses per day) at home and outside the home; travel; recreational water exposure including types of swimming locations and entering hot tubs; person-to-person fecal exposures, specifically, contact with child-care centers, diapered, and ill individuals; consumption of "risky" food items (risky foods refers to a list of standard food items asked in the CDC foodborne questionnaires, e.g. salads, cold cuts/meats, raw vegetables/fruits, raw oysters/shellfish, cider/juice), consumption of unpasteurized foods and handling of raw foods; zoonotic contact including farm animals and pets; and, for adults over 18 years of age, details on specific sexual practices.
Zoonotic species could acquire resistance genes from human commensal bacteria during the infection process, but this hypothesis is difficult to test.
Brucellosis is a worldwide zoonotic disease caused by a number of host-adapted species of the gram-negative bacterial genus Brucella . In addition to the economic losses caused by reproductive failure in a number of important livestock animals, accidental transmission of the disease to humans can occur through animal husbandry, meat processing activities or ingestion of contaminated unpasteurized milk.
Despite the evidence that avoparcin use has had a large impact on the emergence and spread of VRE by increasing the reservoir of VRE in the EU, some uncertainty continues to surround the clinical significance of VRE strains of animal origin and of the zoonotic origins of resistance in general.
While resistance in zoonotic infections should be directly attributable to resistance in the zoonotic reservoir, the impact of agricultural antibiotic use remains controversial [18,27–29].
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