Bacterial communities associated with cell phones and shoes:
“The interaction of the human microbiome and the microbiome of accessory objects is of potential interest to both epidemiology and the developing field of microbial forensics.”
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Neat proposal put forward in this microbiome public engagement project (published here as preprint):
For a proxy of someone's skin and oral microbiota, sample their cell phone.