Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Antibiotic-Free Chicken Farms

• Main Authors: Yuhong Liu (Author), Michael Dyall-Smith (Author), Marc Marenda (Author), Hang-Wei Hu (Author), Glenn Browning (Author), Helen Billman-Jacobe (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2020-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Rising concern about the use of antibiotics in food production has resulted in many studies on the occurrence of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in animal-associated bacterial communities. There are few baseline data on the abundance of ARGs on farms where chickens are intensively raised with lit...