Metagenomic characterization of swine slurry in a North American swine farm operation.

ABSTRACT: Modern day large-scale, high-density farming environments are inherently susceptible to viral outbreaks, inadvertently creating conditions that favor increased pathogen transmission and potential zoonotic spread. Metagenomic sequencing has proven to be a useful tool for characterizing the microbial burden in both people, livestock, and environmental samples. International efforts have been successful at characterizing pathogens in commercial farming environments, especially swine farms, however it is unclear whether the full extent of microbial agents have been adequately captured or is representative of farms elsewhere. To augment international efforts we performed metagenomic next-generation sequencing on nine swine slurry and three environmental samples from a United States of America (

SUBMITTER: Ramesh A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8379149 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature