Metagenomic Characterization of the Microbiome and Resistome of Retail Ground Beef Products.

ABSTRACT: Ground beef can be a reservoir for a variety of bacteria, including spoilage organisms, and pathogenic foodborne bacteria. These bacteria can exhibit antimicrobial resistance (AMR) which is a public health concern if resistance in pathogens leads to treatment failure in humans. Culture-dependent techniques are commonly used to study individual bacterial species, but these techniques are unable to describe the whole community of microbial species (microbiome) and the profile of AMR genes they carry (resistome), which is critical for getting a holistic perspective of AMR. The objective of this study was to characterize the microbiome and resistome of retail ground beef products labeled as coming from conventional or raised without antibiotics (RWA) production systems. Sixteen ground beef pro

SUBMITTER: Doster E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7677504 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature