3.2 Most cited papers
The top 10 papers per citations related to the role of wildlife in AMR
are listed in Table 1. The most cited paper was published in 2005 by
Sayah et al. in Applied Environmental Microbiology (n = 207), by
researchers from the University of Michigan and University of Maryland,
U.S.A. The paper compares antimicrobial agent resistance profiles of
normal gut microbiota from samples of domestic livestock, poultry, pets,
wildlife, and humans in the same geographic region, suggesting that the
rate of E. coli recovery may be different for different species.
The second most cited paper (n = 179), was also published in Applied
Environmental Microbiology in 1999 by Hagedorn et al., by researchers
from Department of Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences (Virginia
Polytechnic Institute) and State University (Virginia), U.S.A. The paper
identifies sources of fecal pollution of a watershed in rural Virginia,
from a variety of sources including humans, livestock (cattle, chickens)
and wildlife (deer, geese and ducks). The third most cited paper (n=162)
was published in Nature, by Gilliver et al., where authors showed that
antimicrobial resistance was prevalent (90%) in wildlife species
(e.g. , wild rodents) even in the absence of direct exposure to
antibiotics, highlighting that the origin of AMR persistence and
dissemination is not always known.