A cross-sectional comparison of gut metagenomes between dairy workers and community controls.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As a nexus of routine antibiotic use and zoonotic pathogen presence, the livestock farming environment is a potential hotspot for the emergence of zoonotic diseases and antibiotic resistant bacteria. Livestock can further facilitate disease transmission by serving as intermediary hosts for pathogens before a spillover event. In light of this, we aimed to characterize the microbiomes and resistomes of dairy workers, whose exposure to the livestock farming environment places them at risk for facilitating community transmission of antibiotic resistant genes and emerging zoonotic diseases.

Results

Using shotgun sequencing, we investigated differences in the taxonomy, diversity and gene presence of 10 dairy farm workers and 6 community controls' gut metagenomes, contex

SUBMITTER: Trinh P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11626760 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature