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ArticleOne health (Amsterdam, Netherlands)2025

Gut microbiome disruption in free-roaming cats: Do antibiotics reduce or restructure zoonotic risk?

An Xie, Yiyue Zhang, Zhonghui Tang, Jake M Robinson, Qiansheng Huang, Jian-Qiang Su, Xin Sun

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Article in One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Variations in the Gut Microbiota of Stray and Domestic Cats.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

An XieState Key Laboratory of Regional and Urban Ecology, Ningbo Observation and Research Station, Fujian Key Laboratory of Watershed Ecology, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, China.
Yiyue ZhangState Key Laboratory of Regional and Urban Ecology, Ningbo Observation and Research Station, Fujian Key Laboratory of Watershed Ecology, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, China.
Zhonghui TangState Key Laboratory of Regional and Urban Ecology, Ningbo Observation and Research Station, Fujian Key Laboratory of Watershed Ecology, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, China.
Jake M RobinsonCollege of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia.
Qiansheng HuangState Key Laboratory of Regional and Urban Ecology, Ningbo Observation and Research Station, Fujian Key Laboratory of Watershed Ecology, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, China.
Jian-Qiang SuState Key Laboratory of Regional and Urban Ecology, Ningbo Observation and Research Station, Fujian Key Laboratory of Watershed Ecology, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, China.
Xin SunState Key Laboratory of Regional and Urban Ecology, Ningbo Observation and Research Station, Fujian Key Laboratory of Watershed Ecology, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Free-roaming cats are abundant in many urban ecosystems but pose significant public health and ecological risks as potential reservoirs of potential zoonotic pathogens. This study examined the gut microbiome of free-roaming cats in urban green spaces in Beijing, China, focusing on microbial diversity and potential zoonotic pathogen prevalence. Using 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing and the MBPD zoonotic pathogen detection pipeline, we identified multiple opportunistic zoonotic bacterial pathogens, including

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Antibiotic interventionFree-roaming catsOne healthZoonotic bacterial pathogens

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