Microbiomes Differ in Newer vs Older Hospital NICUs Differences seen in infants' environmental, skin microbiomes

The type of hospital neonatal intensive care unit may have an effect on the infant microbiome, with differences observed between infants in older and newer hospital NICUs, according to a pilot study presented here. There was a significant difference at a genus level between infants' environmental and skin microbiomes between a NICU in an older hospital, where infants were all kept in the same room, and a new hospital, where infants had separate rooms, reported Suchitra K. Hourigan, MD, of Inova Translational Medicine Institute in Falls Church, Va., and colleagues. https://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/ASMMicrobe/65781?xid=NL_breakingnews_2017-06-05&eun=g721819d0r