Patients Leave A Microbial Mark On Hospitals by Beth Mole. Nature. May 23, 2013.
What Is The Research Question and Why Is It Important? The Hospital Microbiome Project
Microbial Populations In A Hospital Under Construction. The Hospital Microbiome Project. October 17, 2012.
Mapping the Great Indoors by Peter Andrey Smith. The
The article and the two excerpts from The Hospital Microbiome Project recount an effort to "monitor the microbial ecosystem of a new University of Chicago hospital to see how microbes pathogens travel through its halls."
The New York Times article contains a significant section about The Hospital Microbiome Project and is well worth a read.
Read the following questions before or after reading the article to (1) give your reading sharper focus and (2) increase recall and improve and retention.
Nature article:
(1) By the end of the year when sampling for the Project ends scientists expect to collect more than ____________ samples.
(2) The researchers found that around ____________ types of microbe moved in during hospital construction.
(3) During construction microbes moved in, transported by ______________________________>
(4) Microbes from long-term patients lingered _______________ and after their rooms __________.
(5) The research team found _________ lingering pathogens.
(6) A rationale for this study is that roughly _________ million hospital-associated infections are reported each year.
Section of The Hospital Microbiome: What is the research question and why is it important?
(1) Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs) are the _________ leading cause of death ahead of diabetes, influenza/pneumonia, and Alzheimer's
New York Times article.
(1) The Director of the University of Oregon's Biology and Built Environment Center said that she expects buildings to eventually ________________________________________
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