Impact of technical sources of variation on the hand microbiome dynamics of healthcare workers.

We assessed the dynamics of hand microbial community structure of 34 healthcare workers from a single surgical intensive care unit over a short (3 week) time period, whilst taking into account the technical sources of variability introduced by specimen collection, DNA extraction, and sequencing. Sam...

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Main Authors: Mariana Rosenthal, Allison E Aiello, Carol Chenoweth, Deborah Goldberg, Elaine Larson, Gregory Gloor, Betsy Foxman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24551205/pdf/?tool=EBI