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Diversity changes of microbial communities into hospital surface environments.
Journal of infection and chemotherapy : official journal of the Japan Society of Chemotherapy - 1 Jul 2017
Yano Rika, Shimoda Tomoko, Watanabe Reina, Kuroki Yasutoshi, Okubo Torahiko, Nakamura Shinji, Matsuo Junji, Yoshimura Sadako, Yamaguchi Hiroyuki
Abstract excerpt
Previous works have demonstrated considerable variability in hospital cleanliness in Japan, suggesting that contamination is driven by factors that are currently poorly controlled. We undertook 16S rRNA sequence analysis to study population structures of hospital environmental microbiomes to see which factor(s) impacted contamination. One hundred forty-four samples were collected from surfaces of three hospitals...
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