Ruminants produce edible products and contribute to food security. They house a complex
rumen microbial community that enables the host to digest their plant feed through microbial …

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance is a critical step within risk assessment
schemes, as it is the basis for informing global strategies, monitoring the effectiveness of …

Developments in high-throughput next generation sequencing (NGS) technology have
rapidly advanced the understanding of overall microbial ecology as well as occurrence and …

Livestock manure, dairy lagoon effluent, and treated wastewater are known reservoirs of
antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB), and virulence factor …

This Opinion considers the application of whole genome sequencing (WGS) and
metagenomics for outbreak investigation, source attribution and risk assessment of food …

Background The emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance is the most urgent
current threat to human and animal health. An improved understanding of the abundance of …

The aim of this review was to provide an update on the complex relationship between
manure application, altered pathogen levels and antibiotic resistance. This is necessary to …

The discovery of penicillin followed by streptomycin, tetracycline, cephalosporins and other
natural, semi-synthetic and synthetic antimicrobials completely revolutionized medicine by …

A 30 year field experiment with a wheat-soybean crop** system were performed to
compare the long-term anthropogenic influence on soil ARGs. Compared with chemical …

Objectives: Effluents contain a diverse abundance of antibiotic resistance genes that
augment the resistome of receiving aquatic environments. However, uncertainty remains …