Brianne Palmer

Dental spittoon biofilms as reservoirs of antimicrobial resistance: a longitudinal multi-omics study

ABSTRACT Dental chair spittoons are chronically exposed to saliva, aerosols, intermittent water flow, and chemical disinfectants, yet their biofilm ecology and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) dynamics remain poorly defined. We applied longitudinal 16S rRNA gene sequencing, shotgun...