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E. coli bacteria migrating between humans, chimps in Ugandan park
02-22-2007 · EurekAlert!Scientists from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana have found that people employed in chimpanzee-focused research and tourism in a park in western Uganda are exchanging gastrointestinal bacteria -- specifically Escherichia coli -- with local chimpanzee populations. And some of the E. coli strains migrating to chimps are resistant to antibiotics used by humans in Uganda.
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