Researchers from Cornell University have provided the first map of New York's subway microbes, identifying more than 1,688 types of bacteria and one station that even supports a 'marine ecosystem'. Although a vast majority of the bacteria are harmless to the 1.7 billion annual travelers, the disease-causing bacteria that are resistant to drugs were found in 27 percent of samples, out of which two samples were found with DNA fragments of anthrax and three with a plasmid associated ...
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