Bacterial colonization and succession in a newly opened hospital

Simon Lax(Argonne National Laboratory), Naseer Sangwan(Argonne National Laboratory), Daniel P. Smith(Baylor College of Medicine), Peter E. Larsen(Argonne National Laboratory), Kim M. Handley(University of Chicago), Miles Richardson(University of Chicago), Kristina Guyton(University of Chicago), Monika A. Krezalek(University of Chicago), Benjamin D. Shogan(University of Chicago), Jennifer R. DeFazio(University of Chicago), Irma Flemming(University of Chicago), Baddr A. Shakhsheer(University of Chicago), Stephen G. Weber(University of Chicago), Emily Landon(University of Chicago), Sylvia Garcia‐Houchins(University of Chicago), Jeffrey A. Siegel(University of Toronto), John C. Alverdy(University of Chicago), Rob Knight(University of California San Diego), Brent Stephens(Illinois Institute of Technology), Jack A. Gilbert(Argonne National Laboratory)
Science Translational Medicine
May 24, 2017
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were identified. Dynamic Bayesian network analysis suggested that hospital staff were more likely to be a source of bacteria on the skin of patients than the reverse but that there were no universal patterns of transmission across patient rooms.


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