| Title: |
Gut microbiome and resistome characterization of pigs treated with commonly used post-weaning diarrhea treatments |
| Authors: |
Guitart-Matas, Judith; Ballester Devis, Maria; Fraile, Lorenzo; Darwich Soliva, Laila; Giler-Baquerizo, Noemí; Tarres, Joaquim; López-Soria, Sergio; Ramayo-Caldas, Yuliaxis; Migura-Garcia, Lourdes |
| Publication Year: |
2024 |
| Collection: |
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Subject Terms: |
Microbiome; Metagenomics; Post-weaning; Swine; Resistome; Antimicrobial resistance |
| Description: |
The global burden of antimicrobial resistance demands additional measures to ensure the sustainable and conscious use of antimicrobials. For the swine industry, the post-weaning period is critical and for many years, antimicrobials have been the most effective strategy to control and treat post-weaning related infections. Among them, post-weaning diarrhea causes vast economic losses, as it severely compromises piglets' health and growth performance. In this study, 210 piglets were transferred from a farm with recurrent cases of post-weaning diarrhea to an experimental farm and divided into six different treatment groups to determine the effect of the different treatments on the growth performance and survival, the microbiome, and the resistome in a cross-sectional and longitudinal study. The different treatments included antimicrobials trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole, colistin, and gentamicin, an oral commercial vaccine, a control with water acidification, and an untreated control. An extra group remained at the farm of origin following the implemented amoxicillin routine treatment. A total of 280 fecal samples from pigs at four different sampling times were selected for metagenomics: before weaning-treatment at the farm of origin, and three days, two weeks, and four weeks post-treatment. The control group with water acidification showed a reduced death risk in the survival analyses and non-significant differences in average daily weight gain in comparison to the antibiotic-treated groups. However, the growth-promoting effect among antibiotic-treated groups was demonstrated when comparing against the untreated control group at the experimental farm. After four weeks of treatment, diversity indexes revealed significantly decreased diversity for the untreated control and the group that remained at the farm of origin treated with amoxicillin. For this last group, impaired microbial diversity could be related to the continuous amoxicillin treatment carried out at the farm. Analysis of the resistome showed that both ... |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación RYC2019-027244-I; Animal Microbiome; Vol. 6 (may 2024); https://ddd.uab.cat/record/308629; urn:oai:ddd.uab.cat:308629; urn:pmcid:PMC11067243; urn:pmid:38702766; urn:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:11067243 |
| Availability: |
https://ddd.uab.cat/record/308629 |
| Rights: |
open access ; Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, la comunicació pública de l'obra i la creació d'obres derivades, fins i tot amb finalitats comercials, sempre i quan es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original. ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.813B8427 |
| Database: |
BASE |