Risk factors for the abundance of antimicrobial resistance genes aph(3')-III, erm(B), sul2 and tet(W) in pig and broiler faeces in nine European countries.
Dongsheng YangDick J J HeederikDik J MeviusPeter ScherpenisseRoosmarijn E C LuikenLiese Van GompelMagdalena SkarżyńskaKatharina WadepohlClaire ChauvinEri Van HeijnsbergenInge M WoutersGerdit D GreveBetty G M Jongerius-GortemakerMonique Tersteeg-ZijderveldMagdalena ZającDariusz WasylKatharina JuraschekJennie FischerJaap A WagenaarLidwien A M SmitHeike Schmittnull nullPublished in: The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy (2022)
qPCR is an efficient tool for targeted assessment of AMR in livestock-related samples. The AMR variation between samples was mainly contributed to by between-country, between-farm and within-farm differences, and then by on-farm AMU.