When Hong Kong commuters take the subway, their microbes mix – and spread

Wednesday, August 1, 2018 - 15:30 in Biology & Nature

Humans aren’t the only commuters making use of the metro. A new study that examined the microbiome of the Hong Kong subway system found distinct bacterial “fingerprints” in each line during the morning – distinctions that blurred over the course of the afternoon. The findings, published in the...

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