The fecal resistome of dairy cattle is associated with diet during nursing

Livestock play a role in maintaining antibiotic resistance reservoirs. Here, Liu et al. use metagenomics to study the dynamics of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in the gut of dairy cattle during early life, showing that colostrum is a potential source of ARGs and ARG abundance declines during nu...

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Main Authors: Jinxin Liu, Diana H. Taft, Maria X. Maldonado-Gomez, Daisy Johnson, Michelle L. Treiber, Danielle G. Lemay, Edward J. DePeters, David A. Mills
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12111-x