Zoonotic Agents
Authors: Ilya B. Slizovskiy (University of Minnesota) , Tara N. Gaire (University of Minnesota) , Peter M. Ferm (University of Minnesota) , Carissa A. Odland (Pipestone Veterinary Services) , Scott Dee (Pipestone Veterinary Services) , Joel Nerem (Pipestone Veterinary Services) , Christina Boucher (University of Florida) , Noelle Noyes (University of Minnesota)
Workers in swine facilities have frequent and varied contact with pigs during their workday and may harbor a higher prevalence of some bacteria (e.g., Staphylococcus aureus) compared to the general public. Close contact with swine is a risk factor for this increased prevalence. However, it is unknown whether frequent exposure to swine results in detectable and sustained impacts to worker microbiomes and critical genes within microbiomes responsible for antimicrobial resistance (i.e. the ‘resistome’) as well as horizontal gene transfer potential via mobile genetic elements (i.e. the ‘mobilome’). We aimed to profile the microbiome-resistome-mobilome of swine workers of a commercial farm, and to determine whether this profile changes throughout the course of a typical workday.
Keywords: antimicrobial resistance, mobile genetic elements, metagenomics, worker, biosecurity
How to Cite: Slizovskiy, I. B. , Gaire, T. N. , Ferm, P. M. , Odland, C. A. , Dee, S. , Nerem, J. , Boucher, C. & Noyes, N. (2023) “Profiling the Agricultural Labor-OME: Showering Disrupts Work-Related Shifts in Swine Worker Skin Microbiomes, Resistome, and Mobilomes”, SafePork. 14(1).