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Cleanroom Maintenance Significantly Reduces Abundance but Not Diversity of Indoor Microbiomes.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Mahnert Alexander, Vaishampayan Parag, Probst Alexander J, Auerbach Anna, Moissl-Eichinger Christine, Venkateswaran Kasthuri, Berg Gabriele
Abstract excerpt
Cleanrooms have been considered microbially-reduced environments and are used to protect human health and industrial product assembly. However, recent analyses have deciphered a rather broad diversity of microbes in cleanrooms, whose origin as well as physiological status has not been fully understood. Here, we examined the input of intact microbial cells from a surrounding built environment into a spacecraft...
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