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SUBMITTER: Afridi OK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7764233 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Afridi Ome Kalsoom OK Ali Johar J Chang Jeong Ho JH
Animals : an open access journal from MDPI 20201209 12
The study was designed to investigate the fecal microbiome and resistome of broiler chickens infected with multidrug-resistant (MDR) <i>Escherichia coli</i> (<i>E. coli</i>). Fecal samples (<i>n</i> = 410) from broiler chickens were collected from thirteen randomly selected sites of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and screened for the presence of MDR <i>E. coli</i>. Upon initial screening, thirteen (13) MDR <i>E. coli</i> isolates were then subjected to shotgun metagenome next-generation sequencing (NGS). NG ...[more]