Tag: hands

Conclusions not totally convincing but hand microbiomes worth considering in hospital acquired infection studies

By Jonathan Eisen   Posted in Scholarly Literature (Journals, Books, Reports)
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So – just was reading this paper: Healthcare Workers’ Hand Microbiome May Mediate Carriage of Hospital Pathogens.  Basically, they showed that the microbiome on health care worker’s hands was correlated with estimates of pathogen carriage. And, it seems to be of potential interest to the microBEnet community.  I confess, I am skeptical of the validity of some …

Important paper on variation in bacterial communities on hands

By Jonathan Eisen   Posted in Scholarly Literature (Journals, Books, Reports)
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There is an interesting and important paper out in Microbiology: Hand Bacterial Communities Vary Across Two Different Human Populations by Denina Hospodsky, Amy J. Pickering, Timothy R. Julian , Dana Miller, Sisira Gorthala, Alexandria B. Boehm, and Jordan Peccia.  This paper is important for many reasons including the following: They found significant variation in the communities found on …