Molecular investigation of bacterial communities: Data from two frequently used surfaces in the São Paulo Institute of Tropical Medicine

Tairacan Augusto Pereira da Fonseca; Rodrigo Pessôa; Sabri Saeed Sanabani

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2016.05.064

Molecular investigation of bacterial communities: Data from two frequently used surfaces in the São Paulo Institute of Tropical Medicine

Data Brief. 2016 Jun 2:8:399-403. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2016.05.064. eCollection 2016 Sep.

Authors

Tairacan Augusto Pereira da Fonseca¹, Rodrigo Pessôa¹, Sabri Saeed Sanabani²

Affiliations

¹ Clinical Laboratory, Department of Pathology, LIM 03, Hospital das Clínicas, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo 05403 000, Brazil.
² Clinical Laboratory, Department of Pathology, LIM 03, Hospital das Clínicas, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo 05403 000, Brazil; São Paulo Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo 05403 000, Brazil.

Abstract

This article contains data on the bacterial population of two frequently used surfaces in the São Paulo Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) using the Illumina sequencing for massive parallel investigation of the bacterial 16S ribosomal RNA gene. Surface samples were obtained from restroom surfaces and the fingerprint door clock system. Mothur package and Shannon-ace-table.pl software programs (Chunlab Inc.: Seoul, Korea) were used to compute the diversity indices of bacterial community. The sequencing data from both surfaces have been uploaded to Zenodo: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.47709.