Subject: "commercial farms" / Publication Year: 2018 / Subject: 3 selected

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Author:: Wang, Mianzhi; Liu, Peng; Zhou, Qin; Tao, Wanyu; Sun, Yongxue; Zeng, Zhenling
Source:: Environmental pollution 2018 v.238 pp. 291-298
ISSN:: 0269-7491
Subject:: commercial farms, etc ; DNA; animal and human health; antibiotic resistance; antibiotic resistance genes; bacteria; bacteriophages; feces; models; monitoring; swine; China; Show all 12 Subjects
Abstract:: ... The transfer of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in the environment is a threat to both human and animal health. However, the contribution of bacteriophages to the dissemination of resistance genes via transduction is rarely explored. In this study, we screened pig feces from three commercial farms in China for 32 clinically relevant ARG types to assess the presence of the ARG population in bact ...
DOI:: 10.1016/j.envpol.2018.03.024
: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2018.03.024