Comprehensive Longitudinal Microbiome Analysis of the Chicken Cecum Reveals a Shift From Competitive to Environmental Drivers and a Window of Opportunity for Campylobacter

Comprehensive Longitudinal Microbiome Analysis of the Chicken Cecum Reveals a Shift From Competitive to Environmental Drivers and a Window of Opportunity for Campylobacter

Chickens are a key food source for humans yet their microbiome contains bacteria that can be pathogenic to humans, and indeed potentially to chickens themselves. Campylobacter is present within the chicken gut and is the leading cause of bacterial foodborne gastroenteritis within humans worldwide. I...

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Main Authors: Umer Zeeshan Ijaz, Lojika Sivaloganathan, Aaron McKenna, Anne Richmond, Carmel Kelly, Mark Linton, Alexandros Ch. Stratakos, Ursula Lavery, Abdi Elmi, Brendan W. Wren, Nick Dorrell, Nicolae Corcionivoschi, Ozan Gundogdu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
chicken
microbiome
Campylobacter
environmental filtering
phylogenetic signal
competitive exclusion
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2018.02452/full

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https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2018.02452/full

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