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HYGEINE PRACTICES SHAPE THE MICROBIAL ECOLOGY, FUNCTIONAL POTENTIAL AND RESISTOME OF THE HUMAN-ASSOCIATED BATH TOWEL MICROHABITATS

2026-07-29

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Bath towels are frequently reused personal textiles that experience repeated human contact, moisture exposure, and intermittent laundering, yet their microbial ecology and genome-resolved risk potential remain poorly characterized. This study used shotgun metagenomic sequencing to investigate how washing frequency shapes the taxonomic composition, functional potential, antimicrobial resistance burden, virulence re...

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Literature Corpus work: dfa91388-f43b-5214-9d4e-3dfceecd196a
DOI: 10.1099/acmi.0.001289.v1

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