How Investigating Bacteria Will Change Health Care In Hospitals
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Preventing the spread of disease and infection through microbes.
We often think of the world around us as sterile and static, especially when we are in a hospital. In reality, every surface on earth is literally teeming with millions of bacteria.
Jack Gilbert, a microbiologist from the University of Chicago, has spent his career investigating these invisible companions all around us. This year, Gilbert and a group of microbiologists will take over a brand new hospital in an experiment called the “Hospital Microbiome.”
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