Intra-hospital microbiome variability is driven by accessibility and clinical activities
Kaseba Chibwe,
Sathyavathi Sundararaju,
Lin Zhang
et al.
Abstract:The hospital environmental microbiome, which can affect patients’ and healthcare workers’ health, is highly variable and the drivers of this variability are not well understood. In this study, we collected 37 surface samples from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in an inpatient hospital before and after the operation began. Additionally, healthcare workers collected 160 surface samples from five additional areas of the hospital. All samples were analyzed using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing, and the … Show more
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