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Bacterial communities on classroom surfaces vary with human contact

Overview of attention for article published in Microbiome, March 2014
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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63 X users
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Title
Bacterial communities on classroom surfaces vary with human contact
Published in
Microbiome, March 2014
DOI 10.1186/2049-2618-2-7
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Authors

James F Meadow, Adam E Altrichter, Steven W Kembel, Maxwell Moriyama, Timothy K O’Connor, Ann M Womack, G Z Brown, Jessica L Green, Brendan J M Bohannan

Abstract

Humans can spend the majority of their time indoors, but little is known about the interactions between the human and built-environment microbiomes or the forces that drive microbial community assembly in the built environment. We sampled 16S rRNA genes from four different surface types throughout a university classroom to determine whether bacterial assemblages on each surface were best predicted by routine human interactions or by proximity to other surfaces within the classroom. We then analyzed our data with publicly-available datasets representing potential source environments.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 10 3%
France 2 <1%
Sweden 2 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Unknown 294 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 62 20%
Researcher 47 15%
Student > Bachelor 46 15%
Student > Master 37 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 16 5%
Other 49 16%
Unknown 53 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 85 27%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 53 17%
Environmental Science 24 8%
Engineering 18 6%
Immunology and Microbiology 13 4%
Other 50 16%
Unknown 67 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 69. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 May 2022.
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#626,765
of 25,529,543 outputs
Outputs from Microbiome
#173
of 1,775 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#5,671
of 236,107 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Microbiome
#2
of 11 outputs
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