Evaluation of multidrug-resistant bacteria and their molecular mechanisms found in small animal veterinary practices in Portugal

Funding Information: The author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research and/or publication of this article. This research was funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), under projects UIDB/00276/2020 (CIISA) and LA/P/0059/2020 (AL4AnimalS) and GHTM through FCT (UID/04413/2020) and LA-REAL -LA/P/0117/2020. This study was funded by FCT project 2022.08669.PTDC. -VetCare. JMS, JM and LF were supported by a Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) PhD fellowship (2020.06540.BD; 2020.07562.BD; UI/BD/153070/2022, respectively). Publisher Copyright: Copyright © 2025 Moreira da Silva, Menezes, Fernandes, Marques, Costa, Timofte, Amaral and Pomba.