| Literature DB >> 23877117 |
Yongfei Hu1, Xi Yang, Junjie Qin, Na Lu, Gong Cheng, Na Wu, Yuanlong Pan, Jing Li, Liying Zhu, Xin Wang, Zhiqi Meng, Fangqing Zhao, Di Liu, Juncai Ma, Nan Qin, Chunsheng Xiang, Yonghong Xiao, Lanjuan Li, Huanming Yang, Jian Wang, Ruifu Yang, George F Gao, Jun Wang, Baoli Zhu.
Abstract
The human gut microbiota is a reservoir of antibiotic resistance genes, but little is known about their diversity and richness within the gut. Here we analyse the antibiotic resistance genes of gut microbiota from 162 individuals. We identify a total of 1,093 antibiotic resistance genes and find that Chinese individuals harbour the highest number and abundance of antibiotic resistance genes, followed by Danish and Spanish individuals. Single-nucleotide polymorphism-based analysis indicates that antibiotic resistance genes from the two European populations are more closely related while the Chinese ones are clustered separately. We also confirm high abundance of tetracycline resistance genes with this large cohort study. Our study provides a broad view of antibiotic resistance genes in the human gut microbiota.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID： 23877117 DOI： 10.1038/ncomms3151
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Commun ISSN： 2041-1723 Impact factor: 14.919