Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

Environmental remodeling of human gut microbiota and antibiotic resistome in livestock farms

  • Jian Sun,
  • Xiao-Ping Liao,
  • Alaric W. D’Souza,
  • Manish Boolchandani,
  • Sheng-Hui Li,
  • Ke Cheng,
  • José Luis Martínez,
  • Liang Li,
  • You-Jun Feng,
  • Liang-Xing Fang,
  • Ting Huang,
  • Jing Xia,
  • Yang Yu,
  • Yu-Feng Zhou,
  • Yong-Xue Sun,
  • Xian-Bo Deng,
  • Zhen-Ling Zeng,
  • Hong-Xia Jiang,
  • Bing-Hu Fang,
  • You-Zhi Tang,
  • Xin-Lei Lian,
  • Rong-Min Zhang,
  • Zhi-Wei Fang,
  • Qiu-Long Yan,
  • Gautam Dantas,
  • Ya-Hong Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15222-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Environments where antibiotics are used indiscriminately exhibit microbial communities that can represent hot-spots of resistance gene enrichment, which in turn could spread to humans. Here, the authors characterize how exposure to swine farms environment lead to temporal changes in the gut microbiome and resistome of healthy veterinary students.