Mobile phones carry the personal microbiome of their owners

PeerJ

Volumn 2014, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Meadow, James F ^a   Altrichter, Adam E ^a   Green, Jessica L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Built environment; Cell phone; Human microbiome; Indoor microbiology; Mobile phone; Personal microbiome; Quantified self

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOME; MOBILE PHONE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 84903846612     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.447     Document Type: Article

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