Urban Transit System Microbial Communities Differ by Surface Type and Interaction with Humans and the Environment

mSystems

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Hsu, Tiffany ^a,b   Joice, Regina ^a   Vallarino, Jose ^a   Abu Ali, Galeb ^a   Hartmann, Erica M ^c   Shafquat, Afrah ^a   DuLong, Casey ^a   Baranowski, Catherine ^a   Gevers, Dirk ^b   Green, Jessica L ^c   Morgan, Xochitl C ^a,b   Spengler, John D ^a   Huttenhower, Curtis ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Built environment; Microbiome; Subway; Transit

Indexed keywords

EID: 84988548188     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23795077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mSystems.00018-16     Document Type: Review

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