| antimicrobial resistance genes present in the faecal microbiota of free-living galapagos tortoises (chelonoidis porteri). | antimicrobial resistance (amr), encoded by plasmid-mediated amr genes (args), is an increasing global public health threat. wildlife play a fundamental role as sentinels, reservoirs and potential vectors of args. for the first time in galapagos, we have identified and quantified the presence of args in free-living giant tortoises (chelonoidis porteri). we performed arg analyses by quantitative pcr of faeces collected from the cloaca of 30 tortoises widely distributed across santa cruz island. va ... | 2019 | 31444864 |