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The hospital “Sink-ome”: Pathogen and antimicrobial resistance gene burden in sink-traps across 29 UK hospitals and associations with sink characteristics

2025-07-25

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Hospital sinks are reservoirs for common healthcare-associated pathogens and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes, but there are limited large-scale data on the distribution of this burden across hospitals and associations with sink infrastructure-related features such as design, water chemistry, and usage. Using metagenomics to characterise the microbiome of 287 sink-traps across 29 UK hospitals, we evaluate asso...

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DOI: 10.1101/2025.07.25.25332191

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