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Destination shapes antibiotic resistance gene acquisitions, abundance increases, and diversity changes in Dutch travelers.

Alaric W D'SouzaManish BoolchandaniSanket PatelGianluca GalazzoJarne M van HattemMaris S ArcillaDamian C MellesMenno D de JongConstance Schultsznull nullGautam DantasJohn Penders
Published in: Genome medicine (2021)
Our results show that travel shapes the architecture of the human gut resistome and results in AMR gene acquisition against a variety of antimicrobial drug classes. These broad acquisitions highlight the putative risks that international travel poses to public health by gut resistome perturbation and the global spread of locally endemic AMR genes.
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