A large-scale metagenomic survey dataset of the post-weaning piglet gut lumen.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Early weaning and intensive farming practices predispose piglets to the development of infectious and often lethal diseases, against which antibiotics are used. Besides contributing to the build-up of antimicrobial resistance, antibiotics are known to modulate the gut microbial composition. As an alternative to antibiotic treatment, studies have previously investigated the potential of probiotics for the prevention of postweaning diarrhea. In order to describe the post-weaning gut microbiota, and to study the effects of two probiotics formulations and of intramuscular antibiotic treatment on the gut microbiota, we sampled and processed over 800 faecal time-series samples from 126 piglets and 42 sows.

Results

Here we report on the largest shotgun metagenomic datase

SUBMITTER: Gaio D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8173662 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature