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Moving towards a Robust Definition for a "Healthy" Indoor Microbiome.
Article in mSystems, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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13 citing papers in PubMed.
- Microbial landscape: composition and health associations of environmental microbiome in key functional spaces of premium elderly care facilities.Microbiology spectrum · 2026Article
- Exploring and defining concepts of microbiome stewardship for the indoor built environment.Sustainable microbiology · 2026Article
- Probiotic-Based Approaches for Sustainable Control of Infectious Risk in Mass Transport: Current Data and Future Perspectives.Microbial biotechnology · 2025Review
- Fungal diversity differences in the indoor dust microbiome from built environments on earth and in space.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Occupational farm work activities influence workers' indoor home microbiome.Environmental research · 2024Article
- Who inhabits the built environment? A microbiological point of view on the principal bacteria colonizing our urban areas.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Review
- Health and environment from adaptation to adaptivity: a situated relational account.History and philosophy of the life sciences · 2022Article
- Understanding building-occupant-microbiome interactions toward healthy built environments: A review.Frontiers of environmental science & engineering · 2021Review
- A 21st century view of infection control in everyday settings: Moving from the Germ Theory of Disease to the Microbial Theory of Health.American journal of infection control · 2020Review
- Morphology and quantification of fungal growth in residential dust and carpets.Building and environment · 2020Article
- Ecological interactions in asthma: from environment to microbiota and immune responses.Current opinion in pulmonary medicine · 2020Review
- Implications of indoor microbial ecology and evolution on antibiotic resistance.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2020Review
- Ten questions concerning the implications of carpet on indoor chemistry and microbiology.Building and environment · 2019Article
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Abstract
Buildings of the future should be designed to support human health, both by promoting the presence of beneficial microbes and by reducing exposure to harmful ones. However, we still do not have a robust definition of what constitutes a "healthy" indoor microbiome. Such a definition would allow us to better understand implications of building design and behavioral decisions of residents, especially for vulnerable populations such as asthmatic children. Relevant assessment methods could then be developed to make microbiome information available to home occupants, environmental health professionals, policy writers, building designers, and building remediation specialists.
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