Insights into antibiotic resistomes from gut meta-genome-assembled genomes of the free-range chickens
Dongming Qi, Jinyuan Liu, Xue Bai, Binlong Chen, Fengjiao Qiu, Caiyun Sun, Jianyong An, Anqiang Lai, Xiaoyan Li · 2026
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Dongming Qi and colleagues catalogue in 2026 drug resistance genes inside gut microbes of free-range chickens across four Chinese provinces. Outdoor birds meet people and soil microbes closely, so their gut may shuttle resistance widely.
Faecal sampling covered 120 birds, yielding more than two thousand reconstructed microbe genomes across 660 species. Detected resistance copies numbered in the hundreds of thousands, spanning 159 genes and 35 drug classes. Regional patterns varied sharply with environment and farming habits. Mobile DNA pieces averaged about 34 per genome and tracked with resistance load. Certain E. coli and Klebsiella genomes carried hundreds of resistance and virulence genes.
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| CREATOR | Dongming Qi, Jinyuan Liu, Xue Bai, Binlong Chen, Fengjiao Qiu, Caiyun Sun, Jianyong An, Anqiang Lai, Xiaoyan Li |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 44661 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |