Characterization of Wild and Captive Baboon Gut Microbiota and Their Antibiotic Resistomes

Characterization of Wild and Captive Baboon Gut Microbiota and Their Antibiotic Resistomes

Antibiotic exposure results in acute and persistent shifts in the composition and function of microbial communities associated with vertebrate hosts. However, little is known about the state of these communities in the era before the widespread introduction of antibiotics into clinical and agricultu...

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Main Authors: Pablo Tsukayama, Manish Boolchandani, Sanket Patel, Erica C. Pehrsson, Molly K. Gibson, Kenneth L. Chiou, Clifford J. Jolly, Jeffrey Rogers, Jane E. Phillips-Conroy, Gautam Dantas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2018-06-01
Series:mSystems
Subjects:
antibiotics
antimicrobial resistance
baboon
metagenomics
microbial ecology
microbiome
resistome
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00016-18

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https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00016-18

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