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817. Exploring Microbial Community Alterations during Hospital Animal-Assisted Intervention Programs

BACKGROUND: Animal-assisted interventions, or pet therapy, is increasingly used by healthcare facilities given the numerous benefits in various settings. However, therapy animals may serve as vectors of hospital-associated pathogens. Yet, both pathogenic and protective commensal microbes could be tr...

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Autores principales: Dalton, Kathryn R, Carroll, Karen C, Grice, Elizabeth A, Davis, Meghan F
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7777425/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa439.1006