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Nursing-home residents’ skin is a source of transmitted harmful and drug-resistant microbes

Teresa R. O’Meara ()

Nature, 2025, vol. 639, issue 8056, 873-875

Abstract: Genomic sequencing has revealed that individual strains of life-threatening, antibiotic-resistant bacteria and Candida auris fungi reside on human skin and can be commonly transmitted between residents of nursing homes.

Keywords: Microbiology; Virology; Medical research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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