Shifts in microbial community, pathogenicity-related genes and antibiotic resistance genes during dairy manure piled up.

ABSTRACT: The uncomposted faeces of dairy cow are usually stacked on cow breeding farms, dried under natural conditions and then used as cow bedding material or they may be continuously piled up. However, no information is available to evaluate variations in the human and animal pathogen genes and antibiotic resistance during the accumulation of fresh faeces of dairy cow to manure. Here, we present the metagenomic analysis of fresh faeces and manure from a dairy farm in Ning Xia, showing a unique enrichment of human and animal pathogen genes and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in manure. We found that manure accumulation could significantly increase the diversity and abundance of the pathogenic constituents. Furthermore, pathogens from manure could spread to the plant environment and enphytotic p

SUBMITTER: Zhang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7264890 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature