Improved single-swab sample preparation for recovering bacterial and phage DNA from human skin and wound microbiomes

Improved single-swab sample preparation for recovering bacterial and phage DNA from human skin and wound microbiomes

Abstract Background Characterization of the skin and wound microbiome is of high biomedical interest, but is hampered by the low biomass of typical samples. While sample preparation from other microbiomes (e.g., gut) has been the subject of extensive optimization, procedures for skin and wound micro...

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Main Authors: Samuel Verbanic, Colin Y. Kim, John M. Deacon, Irene A. Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-09-01
Series:BMC Microbiology
Subjects:
DNA purification
Bacteriophage
Skin microbiome
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12866-019-1586-4

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