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Associations between antimicrobial use and the faecal resistome on broiler farms from nine European countries
Author(s) -
Roosmarijn E. C. Luiken,
Liese Van Gompel,
Patrick Munk,
Steven Sarrazin,
Philip Joosten,
Alejandro Dorado-García,
Rasmus Borup Hansen,
Berith Elkær Knudsen,
Alex Bossers,
Jaap A. Wagenaar,
Frank M. Aarestrup,
Jeroen Dewulf,
Dik Mevius,
Dick Heederik,
Lidwien A.M. Smit,
Heike Schmitt,
Haitske Graveland,
Alieda vanEssen,
Bruno GonzálezZorn,
Gabriel Moyano,
Pascal Sandérs,
Claire Chauvin,
Julie David,
Antonio Battisti,
Andrea Caprioli,
Thomas Blaha,
Katharina Wadepohl,
Maximiliane Brandt,
Tine Hald,
Ana Sofia Ribeiro Duarte,
Dariusz Wasyl,
Magdalena Skarżyńska,
Magdalena Zając,
H. Daskalov,
H.W. Saatkamp,
Katharina D.C. Stärk
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124
H-Index - 194
eISSN - 1460-2091
pISSN - 0305-7453
DOI - 10.1093/jac/dkz235
Subject(s) - resistome , biosecurity , biology , flock , antimicrobial , antibiotic resistance , veterinary medicine , broiler , microbiology and biotechnology , antibiotics , zoology , medicine , integron , ecology
The faecal microbiome in European broilers contains a high diversity of ARGs, even in the absence of current antimicrobial selection pressure. Despite this, the relative abundance of genes and the composition of the resistome is positively related to AMU in European broiler farms for several antimicrobial classes.

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