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ArticleAmerican journal of public health2016

The Human Microbiome and Public Health: Social and Ethical Considerations.

Kieran C O'Doherty, Alice Virani, Elizabeth S Wilcox

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Article in American journal of public health, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Kieran C O'DohertyKieran C. O'Doherty is with the Department of Psychology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada. Alice Virani is with the Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Elizabeth S. Wilcox is with the School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia.
Alice ViraniKieran C. O'Doherty is with the Department of Psychology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada. Alice Virani is with the Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Elizabeth S. Wilcox is with the School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia.
Elizabeth S WilcoxKieran C. O'Doherty is with the Department of Psychology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada. Alice Virani is with the Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Elizabeth S. Wilcox is with the School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rapid advances in human microbiome research point to an increasing range of health outcomes related to the composition of an individual's microbiome. To date, much research has focused on individual health, with a paucity of attention to public health implications. This is a critical oversight owing to the potentially shared nature of the human microbiome across communities and vertical and horizontal mechanisms for transferring microbiomes among humans. We explored some key ethical and social implications of human microbiome research for public health. We focused on (1) insights from microbiome research about damage to individual and shared microbiomes from prevalent societal practices, and (2) ethical and social implications of novel technologies developed on the basis of emerging microbiome science.

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EnvironmentEthics, ResearchHealth StatusMicrobiotaSocial EnvironmentAnti-Bacterial AgentsCultureDelivery, ObstetricDietHumansImmune SystemInfant, NewbornObesityProbioticsPublic HealthAnti-Bacterial Agents

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PMID26794165
PMCPMC4815753

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