Tracing How "Hidden Life" Grows Inside a Newly Opened Hospital (IMAGE)

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Tracing How "Hidden Life" Grows Inside a Newly Opened Hospital

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Floor-plan of a newly opened hospital where researchers characterized how microbial communities changed over time as the facility became operational.

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S. Lax <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine </i>(2017)

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