Abstract
Little is known about the effect of human migration on gut microbiome antibiotic resistance gene (ARG) carriage. Using deep shotgun stool metagenomics analysis, we found a rapid increase in gut microbiome ARG richness and abundance in women from 2 independent ethnic groups relocating from Thailand to the United States.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 419-421 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Clinical Infectious Diseases |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 11 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved.
Keywords
- Antibiotic resistance genes
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Gut resistome
- Human migration