“…Bacteria from free‐living birds can acquire resistance to antibiotics due to multiple contaminations with human and livestock residues, and disperse this resistance around the world (Allen et al., ). Specifically, by consuming carcasses of treated livestock, scavengers can be directly exposed to antibiotics and other drugs used to combat disease (Blanco, Junza, & Barrón, ; Blanco, Junza, Segarra, Barbosa, & Barrón, ; Blanco et al., ), and then acquire or develop pathogen resistance to these drugs (Blanco, ). Therefore, the combined evaluation of diet, occurrence of pathogens and their drug resistance can provide information about the scavengers' exposure to food acting as infection sources.…”