Table 1 Relative abundance of ARGs in swine, farm workers and local villagers. All data were normalized to ambient 16S rRNA copies.

From: Comparison of Fecal Microbial Composition and Antibiotic Resistance Genes from Swine, Farm Workers and the Surrounding Villagers

ARGs

workers

villagers

P a

swine

P b

aminoglycoside inactivating enzymes

4.49E-01 ± 5.03E-02

5.68E-01 ± 7.54E-02

0.531

6.69E-02 ± 3.82E-03

0.003

β-lactamases

1.90E-01 ± 4.80E-02

4.46E-01 ± 7.64E-02

0.119

5.59E-03 ± 9.27E-04

0.017

tetracycline

5.90E-01 ± 8.43E-02

5.45E-01 ± 4.19E-02

0.860

1.20E + 00 ± 5.43E-02

0.008

lincomycin

2.20E-01 ± 5.43E-02

6.84E-02 ± 3.49E-02

0.762

1.88E-03 ± 4.62E-04

0.312

macrolide

3.74E-04 ± 3.11E-04

1.68E-01 ± 7.94E-02

0.040

8.11E-05 ± 2.83E-05

0.184

sulfanilamide

1.70E-04 ± 1.63E-04

4.61E-02 ± 3.11E-02

0.122

7.43E-02 ± 1.00E-02

0.031

PMQR

2.02E-03 ± 3.07E-03

5.80E-04 ± 7.03E-04

0.330

4.99E-04 ± 3.48E-04

0.442

MLSB

5.44E-03 ± 3.40E-03

2.74E-01 ± 1.16E-01

0.314

5.27E-02 ± 1.12E-02

0.010

  1. aIndicated the P values between the workers and villagers. bIndicated the P values between the human (workers and villagers) and swine.