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ArticleScience advances2025

Global health risks lurking in livestock resistome.

Bintao Li, Lan Jiang, Timothy Johnson, Guangdong Wang, Wei Sun, Gehong Wei, Shuo Jiao, Jie Gu, James Tiedje, Xun Qian

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Article in Science advances, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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17 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Bintao LiInterdisciplinary Research Center for Soil Microbial Ecology and Land Sustainable Productivity in Dry Areas, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi 712100, China.ORCID 0009-0000-0276-3261
Lan JiangInterdisciplinary Research Center for Soil Microbial Ecology and Land Sustainable Productivity in Dry Areas, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi 712100, China.ORCID 0009-0004-1400-8510
Timothy JohnsonDepartment of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8204-547X
Guangdong WangInterdisciplinary Research Center for Soil Microbial Ecology and Land Sustainable Productivity in Dry Areas, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi 712100, China.ORCID 0000-0001-8300-5656
Wei SunInterdisciplinary Research Center for Soil Microbial Ecology and Land Sustainable Productivity in Dry Areas, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi 712100, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4477-1707
Gehong WeiInterdisciplinary Research Center for Soil Microbial Ecology and Land Sustainable Productivity in Dry Areas, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi 712100, China.
Shuo JiaoInterdisciplinary Research Center for Soil Microbial Ecology and Land Sustainable Productivity in Dry Areas, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi 712100, China.ORCID 0000-0002-1228-1757
Jie GuInterdisciplinary Research Center for Soil Microbial Ecology and Land Sustainable Productivity in Dry Areas, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi 712100, China.ORCID 0000-0001-7592-5751
James TiedjeInterdisciplinary Research Center for Soil Microbial Ecology and Land Sustainable Productivity in Dry Areas, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi 712100, China.ORCID 0000-0002-8992-6218
Xun QianInterdisciplinary Research Center for Soil Microbial Ecology and Land Sustainable Productivity in Dry Areas, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi 712100, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0102-535X

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Livestock farming consumes more than 70% of global antibiotics annually, making livestock manures an important vector of anthropogenically influenced antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). The global pattern of the livestock resistome, its driving mechanisms, and transmission potential to the clinic are not well assessed. We analyzed 4017 livestock manure metagenomes from 26 countries and constructed a comprehensive catalog of livestock ARGs and metagenome-assembled genomes. Livestock resistome is a substantial reservoir of known (2291 subtypes) and latent ARGs (3166 subtypes) and is highly connectable to human resistomes. We depicted the global pattern of livestock resistome and prevalence of clinically critical ARGs, highlighting the role of farm and human antibiotic stewardship in shaping livestock resistome. We developed a risk-assessment framework by integrating mobility potential, clinical significance, and host pathogenic relevance, and prioritized higher risk livestock ARGs, producing a predictive global map of livestock resistome risks that can help guide research and policy.

Indexed as

Drug Resistance, BacterialDrug Resistance, MicrobialGlobal HealthLivestockMetagenomeAnimalsAnti-Bacterial AgentsHumansManureRisk AssessmentAnti-Bacterial AgentsManure

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PMID40577477
PMCPMC12204175

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