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What Have We Learned about the Microbiomes of Indoor Environments?

The advent and application of high-throughput molecular techniques for analyzing microbial communities in the indoor environment have led to illuminating findings and are beginning to change the way we think about human health in relation to the built environment. Here I review recent studies on the...

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Autor principal: Stephens, Brent
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5069963/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27822547
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00083-16
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description The advent and application of high-throughput molecular techniques for analyzing microbial communities in the indoor environment have led to illuminating findings and are beginning to change the way we think about human health in relation to the built environment. Here I review recent studies on the microbiology of the built environment, organize their findings into 12 major thematic categories, and comment on how these studies have or have not advanced knowledge in each area beyond what we already knew from over 100 years of applying culture-based methods to building samples. I propose that while we have added tremendous complexity to the rich existing knowledge base, the practical implications of this added complexity remain somewhat elusive. It remains to be seen how this new knowledge base will change how we design, build, and operate buildings. Much more research is needed to better understand the complexity with which indoor microbiomes may affect human health in both positive and negative ways.
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spelling pubmed-50699632016-11-07 What Have We Learned about the Microbiomes of Indoor Environments? Stephens, Brent mSystems Minireview The advent and application of high-throughput molecular techniques for analyzing microbial communities in the indoor environment have led to illuminating findings and are beginning to change the way we think about human health in relation to the built environment. Here I review recent studies on the microbiology of the built environment, organize their findings into 12 major thematic categories, and comment on how these studies have or have not advanced knowledge in each area beyond what we already knew from over 100 years of applying culture-based methods to building samples. I propose that while we have added tremendous complexity to the rich existing knowledge base, the practical implications of this added complexity remain somewhat elusive. It remains to be seen how this new knowledge base will change how we design, build, and operate buildings. Much more research is needed to better understand the complexity with which indoor microbiomes may affect human health in both positive and negative ways. American Society for Microbiology 2016-07-26 /pmc/articles/PMC5069963/ /pubmed/27822547 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00083-16 Text en Copyright © 2016 Stephens. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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