Plugging the leaks: antibiotic resistance at human–animal interfaces in low‐resource settings

Antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest public health challenges our time. International efforts to curb have largely focused on drug development and limiting unnecessary antibiotic use. However, in areas where water, sanitation, hygiene infrastructure lacking, we propose that bacterial flow between humans animals can exacerbate emergence spread resistant pathogens. Here, describe consequences poor environmental controls by comparing mobile elements among Escherichia coli recovered from meat Cambodia, a middle‐income country with substantial human–animal connectivity unregulated We identified identical conserved transposon region were widely dispersed both animals, phenomenon rarely observed high‐income settings. Our findings indicate plugging leaks at interfaces should be critical part addressing low‐ especially countries.