Environment, Not Genes, Explains <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> in the Nose (IMAGE)

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Environment, Not Genes, Explains <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> in the Nose

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Nasal bacterial species on agar plates, with Escherichia coli (top) and Staphylococcus aureus (bottom). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 5, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by C.M. Liu at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Md., and colleagues was titled, 'Staphylococcus aureus and the ecology of the nasal microbiome.'

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[Credit: Sally Statham, TGen]

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