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Opportunistic pathogens enriched in showerhead biofilms.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 22 Sept 2009

Feazel Leah M, Baumgartner Laura K, Peterson Kristen L, Frank Daniel N, Harris J Kirk, Pace Norman R

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The environments we humans encounter daily are sources of exposure to diverse microbial communities, some of potential concern to human health. In this study, we used culture-independent technology to investigate the microbial composition of biofilms inside showerheads as ecological assemblages i...

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PMID: 19805310
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0908446106
PMCID: PMC2752528

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