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On-Farm Anaerobic Digestion of Dairy Manure Reduces the Abundance of Antibiotic Resistance-Associated Gene Targets and the Potential for Plasmid Transfer.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 25 Jun 2021
Tran Tam T, Scott Andrew, Tien Yuan-Ching, Murray Roger, Boerlin Patrick, Pearl David L, Liu Kira, Robertson James, Nash John H E, Topp Edward
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The present study investigated the impact of on-farm anaerobic digestion on the abundance of enteric bacteria, antibiotic resistance-associated gene targets, and the horizontal transfer potential of extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) genes. Samples of raw and digested manure were obtained from six commercial dairy farms in Ontario, Canada. Digestion significantly abated populations of viable coliforms in all...
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