Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Strain-resolved analysis of hospital rooms and infants reveals overlap between the human and room microbiome

  • Brandon Brooks,
  • Matthew R. Olm,
  • Brian A. Firek,
  • Robyn Baker,
  • Brian C. Thomas,
  • Michael J. Morowitz,
  • Jillian F. Banfield

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02018-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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It is thought that the hospital environment may contribute to infant microbiome development. Here, Brooks et al. present a genome-resolved metagenomic study of microbial genotypes from the infant gut and from neonatal intensive care unit rooms, showing that some strains are found in both infants and rooms.