INART pig manure treatment strategies

Many pathogenic antibiotic-resistant bacteria and their antibiotic-resistance genes are frequently present in the feces of farm animals. To prevent the possibility of antimicrobial resistance transfer to the environment, these feces should undergo treatment before being used as a natural fertilizer. The data describe the effects of two commonly-used manure treatment strategies, storage and composting, conducted at the laboratory scale on bacterial community structure. All samples used in the two methods were collected from the same animals from a single farm at the same time. The data consists of results of metagenomic sequencing targeting V3-V4 variable regions of 16S rRNA to allow microbial community characterization.