Microbial diversity and resistance in faecal samples from acute medical patients assessed through metagenomic sequencing

In this study, we aimed to test the hypothesis that substantial differences in hospital-level use of antibiotics will result in detectable differences in the faecal resistome of patients treated at those hospitals.

本研究旨在验证如下假说：若不同医院的抗生素使用水平存在显著差异，则在这些医院接受治疗的患者粪便耐药组（faecal resistome）将出现可被检测到的差异。