Viability-Resolved Metagenomics Reveals Antagonistic Colonization Dynamics of Staphylococcus epidermidis Strains on Preterm Infant Skin
oleh: K. Taylor Hellmann, Carly E. Tuura, James Fish, Jaimin M. Patel, D. Ashley Robinson
| Format: | Article |
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| Diterbitkan: | American Society for Microbiology 2021-10-01 |
Deskripsi
The skin is a habitat for microbes that commonly infect preterm infants, but the use of sequencing for fine-scale study of the microbial communities of skin that develop in these infants has been limited by technical barriers. We treated skin swabs of preterm infants with a photoreactive dye that eliminates DNA from nonviable microbes and then sequenced the remaining DNA.