The successful use of -omic technologies to achieve the 'One Health' concept in meat producing animals

Abstract

Human health and wellbeing are closely linked to healthy domestic animals, a vital wildlife, and an intact ecosystem. This holistic concept is referred to as 'One Health'. In this review, we provide an overview of the potential and the challenges for the use of modern -omics technologies, especially transcriptomics and proteomics, to implement the 'One Health' idea for food-producing animals. These high-throughput studies offer opportunities to find new potential molecular biomarkers to monitor animal health, detect pharmacological interventions and evaluate the wellbeing of farm animals in modern intensive livestock systems.

Keywords: Animal welfare; Antimicrobial resistance; High resolution differential cell count; Molecular biomarkers; One Health; Proteomics; Transcriptomics.