Recent urbanization in China is correlated with a Westernized microbiome encoding increased virulence and antibiotic resistance genes - Winglee, Kathryn; Howard, Annie Green; Sha, Wei; Gharaibeh, Raad Z.; Liu, Jiawu; Jin, Donghui; Fodor, Anthony A.; Gordon-Larsen, Penny (Microbiome, 2017)
Keywords: Abundance; Aged; Antibiotic resistance; Antibiotics; Bacteria; Bacteria - genetics; Bacteria - pathogenicity; Cancer; China; Community composition; Comparative analysis; Diabetes; Diabetes mellitus; Diet; Diet, Western; Disease; Disposable income; Drug resistance; Drug Resistance, Microbial - genetics; Escherichia coli - genetics; Escherichia coli - pathogenicity; Ethnicity; Evolution (Biology); Feeding Behavior; Female; Gastrointestinal Microbiome - genetics; Genes; Genetic Variation; Geography; Growth rate; High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing; Humans; Hypothesis testing; Intestinal microflora; Lifestyles; Male; Medical research; Metabolism; Metabolites; Metabolome; Metadata; Metagenomics; Microbial drug resistance; Microbiome; Microbiota (Symbiotic organisms); Middle Aged; Multiculturalism & pluralism; Obesity; Phylogenetics; Population growth; Probiotics; Shigella - genetics; Shigella - pathogenicity; Studies; Taxonomy; Urban populations; Urbanization; Virulence; Virulence (Microbiology); Virulence - genetics; Westernization; China; Metabolome; Urbanization; Metagenomics; China; Microbiome