Hospital microbiota vectored by ants

Vitorino Modesto dos Santos; Lister A. Modesto dos Santos; Laura Campos-Modesto; Julia Campos-Modesto

doi:10.54034/mic.e1199

Authors

Vitorino Modesto dos Santos Department of Medicine, Armed Forces Hospital and Catholic University, Brasilia-DF, Brazil
Lister A. Modesto dos Santos Advanced General Surgery and Oncosurgery of the IAMSPE, São Paulo-SP, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4647-4044
Laura Campos-Modesto Medical student. University Center of Brasilia-DF, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9401-2277
Julia Campos-Modesto Medical student. Catholic University, Brasilia-DF, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9286-5372

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54034/mic.e1199

Keywords:

ants, hospital, infection, microbes, symbionts

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