Could public restrooms be an environment for bacterial resistomes?
Antibiotic resistance in bacteria remains a major problem and environments that help to maintain such resistance, represent a significant problem to infection control in the community. Restrooms have always been regarded as potential sources of infectious diseases and we suggest they have the potent...
Main Authors: | Hermine V Mkrtchyan, Charlotte A Russell, Nan Wang, Ronald R Cutler |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2013-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3547874?pdf=render |
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