House Dust Is A Rich Source Of Bacteria

If you’ve always suspected there are unknown things living in the dark and dusty corners of your home and office, we are now one step closer to cataloguing exactly what might be lurking in your indoor environment. Buildings have their own pattern of bacteria in indoor dust, which includes species normally found in the human gut, according research published in BMC Microbiology.

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Filed under: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses on April 11th, 2008