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Toothbrushes and showerheads covered in viruses ‘unlike anything we’ve seen before’ – new study

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par Primrose Freestone, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Microbiology, University of Leicester

Toothbrushes and showerheads in American homes are teeming with viruses known as bacteriophages (bacteria eaters), a new study has found. Many of these “phages” – as they’re known for short – have never been identified before.

The researchers, from Northwestern University in Illinois, swabbed 92 showerheads and 36 toothbrushes. They described what…

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