Fresh litter poses a selective pressure on E. coli strains that harbor siderophores, ColV plasmids and antimicrobial resistance genes than reused litter
Taejung Chung* 1,2, Adelumola Oladeinde 1, Reed Woyda 3,4, Samiru S. Wickramasuriya 5, Joshua M. Lyte 5, Rohana Liyanage 6, Michael Rothrock 1, Sohyun Cho 1, Xiang Li 7, Jodie Plumblee Lawrence 1, Dinku Endale 8, Timothy Strickland 8, Zaid Abdo 3,4 / 1 USDA-ARS, Egg and Poultry Processing Safety Unit, U.S. National Poultry Research Center, Athens, Georgia, United States; 2 USDA-ARS, SCINet Program, ARS AI Center of Excellence, Beltsville, Maryland, United States; 3 Colorado State University, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Fort Collins Colorado, United States; 4 Colorado State University, Program of Cell and Molecular Biology, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States; 5 USDA-ARS, Poultry Production and Product Safety Research Unit, Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States; 6 University of Arkansas, Department of Chemistry, Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States; 7 University of Tennessee, Department of Animal Science, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States; 8 USDA-ARS, Southeast Watershed Research, Tifton, Georgia, United States.