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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jun 18.
Published in final edited form as: Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2018 Dec 12;40(2):171–177. doi: 10.1017/ice.2018.319

Figure 5: PCoA of bacterial communities on ICU stethoscopes before and after practitioner cleaning.

Figure 5:

Stethoscopes bacterial communities before and after practitioner cleaning, along with clean stethoscopes and background controls, were analyzed using unweighted (A) and weighted (B) UniFrac and visualized by PCoA. All groups were significantly different in the unweighted UniFrac (p<0.05; PERMANOVA), whereas by weighted UniFrac the pre- and post-cleaned stethoscopes types were not different.