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Microbiota fingerprints lose individually identifying features over time

BACKGROUND: Humans host individually unique skin microbiota, suggesting that microbiota traces transferred from skin to surfaces could serve as forensic markers analogous to fingerprints. While it is known that individuals leave identifiable microbiota traces on surfaces, it is not clear for how lon...

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Autores principales: Wilkins, David, Leung, Marcus H. Y., Lee, Patrick K. H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5234115/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28086968
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40168-016-0209-7