Metagenomic Characterization of Poultry Cloacal and Oropharyngeal Swabs in Kenya Reveals Bacterial Pathogens and Their Antimicrobial Resistance Genes

Figure 9

Total level of antimicrobial resistance genes in cloacal samples; (a) a stacked column chart with relative abundances of AMR genes aggregated to corresponding ARGs (y-axis) by sample (x-axis) with the height of each bar chart relating to the relative AMR gene abundances in a sample; and (b) AMR genes abundances heat map based on log-transformed relative abundance values. For heatmaps, the color scale from red (high abundance) to blue (low abundance) represents log-transformed relative abundance, and blue (0 on a scale) means no ARGs detected. For each poultry species and sample type, CN = chicken, DK = duck, GF = guinea fowl, GS = goose, PN = pigeon, and TY = turkey.

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