Tapping the pathogenic bacteria from hospital water tap system in Malaysia using flongle nanopore

• Main Authors: Zainulabid, Ummu Afeera, Siew, Shing Wei, Kamarudin, Norhidayah, Periyasamy, Petrick, Ahmad, Hajar Fauzan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2023
• Subjects: RC111 Infectious and Parasitic Diseases
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/106128/7/106128_Tapping%20the%20pathogenic%20bacteria%20from%20hospital.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/106128/; https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(23)00585-4/fulltext; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2023.05.032

The hospital water supply is a reservoir of nosocomial infection that is often neglected. Mounting studies showed that disease transmission in hospitals is caused by the pathogenic bacteria in the water system that carry antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). Hence, this study was conducted as infectio...