The resistomes of rural and urban pigs and poultry in Ghana.

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To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report on the resistomes that are measured using metagenomics in livestock from Sub-Saharan Africa. We find notable differences in the microbiomes between both pigs and poultry, and those also varied markedly compared to similar samples from Europe. However, for both animal species, the same bacterial taxa drove such differences. In pigs and urban free-range poultry, we find a very low abundance of antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs), whereas rural free-range poultry displayed similarity to the European average, and industrialized poultry exhibited higher levels. These findings show how different African livestock bacterial communities and resistomes are from their European counterparts. They also underscore the importanc

SUBMITTER: Jensen EEB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10654090 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature