Tag: hospital

New papers on microbiology of the built environment, August 24, 2015

By Elisabeth Bik   Posted in Scholarly Literature (Journals, Books, Reports)
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This week’s papers are about microbes found on hospital doorknobs, spacecraft assembly cleanrooms, a painting by Leonardo da Vinci, in waste water, and in creosote-treated wood composting. I could not find a song about the specific painting featured here, but Panic at the Disco had a song about another famous painting by LdV: The Ballad of Mona …

Hospital-associated microbiota and implications for nosocomial infections

By Elisabeth Bik   Posted in Scholarly Literature (Journals, Books, Reports)
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Appropriate song to play while reading this post: Doctor! Doctor! – Thompson Twins Despite the many hours we spend inside homes, offices, and other buildings, we still know very little about the microorganisms that live inside these walls. Health-care facilities are very important in this respect, because the humans inside these buildings are often immunocompromised: they are …