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City microbes surviving on disinfectants, research reveals
- sandwichsphinx 2y ago> Dr. Tong says, "The genome of this novel strain of Eremiobacterota enables it to metabolize ammonium ions found in cleaning products. The strain also has genes for alcohol and aldehyde dehydrogenases to break down residual alcohol found in common disinfectants. really interesting article, here's the paper linked in the article if you want to jump straight into that > Diverse and specialized metabolic capabilities of microbes in oligotrophic built environments https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40168-024-01926-6 https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186...