The Role of Plumbing Biofilms in Healthcare Acquired Infections
Title Talk
The Role of Plumbing Biofilms in Healthcare Acquired Infections
THIS SPEAKER WILL BE IN PERSON IN FXB 301.
The event will be hybrid.
Speaker Information
Plumbing systems provide ideal growth conditions for polymicrobial biofilms that often contain health-relevant microorganisms. In hospitals, where 1 in 31 patients contracts a healthcare acquired infection, biofilm control is of the utmost importance for infection prevention. In this seminar, Hannah Greenwald Healy, Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Exposure Science, will present research from several sampling campaigns at Yale New Haven Hospital. Using a combination of metagenomic and culture-based methods, she and her team investigated plumbing biofilms throughout water systems, with broad implications for infection prevention and wastewater surveillance.
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