Kaidi Liu, Minge Wang, Yin Zhang, Chang Fang, Rongmin Zhang, Liangxing Fang, Jian Sun, Yahong Liu, Xiaoping Liao
Livestock farms are major reservoirs of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) that are discharged into the environment. However, the abundance, diversity, and transmission of ARGs in duck farms and its impact on surrounding environments remain to be further explored. Therefore, the characteristics of ARGs and their bacterial hosts from duck farms and surrounding environment were investigated by using metagenomic sequencing. Eighteen ARG types which consist of 823 subtypes were identified and the majority conferred resistance to multidrug, tetracyclines, aminoglycosides, chloramphenicols, MLS, and sulfonamides...
December 2024: Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology