ReviewJournal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology2020
Implications of indoor microbial ecology and evolution on antibiotic resistance.
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- Unexpected enrichment of antibiotic resistance genes in recirculating aquaculture effluents of rainbow trout (Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
- Exploring and defining concepts of microbiome stewardship for the indoor built environment.Sustainable microbiology · 2026Article
- Response of culturable bacteria and their resistance to air purification across compartments.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Genomic description ofmSystems · 2025Article
- The indoors microbiome and human health.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2024Review
- Department-specific patterns of bacterial communities and antibiotic resistance in hospital indoor environments.Applied microbiology and biotechnology · 2024Article
- gcPathogen: a comprehensive genomic resource of human pathogens for public health.Nucleic acids research · 2024Article
- Phyllosphere-associated microbiota in built environment: Do they have the potential to antagonize human pathogens?Journal of advanced research · 2023Article
- [Historical evolution of World Health Organization guidelines on antimicrobial resistanceEvolução histórica da Organização Mundial da Saúde e a resistência aos antimicrobianos].Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2023Article
- Metagenome Analysis Reveals a Response of the Antibiotic Resistome to Mars-like Extraterrestrial Conditions.Astrobiology · 2022Article
- Gut microbiota of ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) vary across natural and captive populations and correlate with environmental microbiota.Animal microbiome · 2022Article
- The Bacterial Urban Resistome: Recent Advances.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Toothbrush microbiomes feature a meeting ground for human oral and environmental microbiota.Microbiome · 2021Article
- Comparative analysis of impact of human occupancy on indoor microbiomes.Frontiers of environmental science & engineering · 2021Article
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Abstract
The indoor environment is an important source of microbial exposures for its human occupants. While we naturally want to favor positive health outcomes, built environment design and operation may counter-intuitively favor negative health outcomes, particularly with regard to antibiotic resistance. Indoor environments contain microbes from both human and non-human origins, providing a unique venue for microbial interactions, including horizontal gene transfer. Furthermore, stressors present in the built environment could favor the exchange of genetic material in general and the retention of antibiotic resistance genes in particular. Intrinsic and acquired antibiotic resistance both pose a potential threat to human health; these phenomena need to be considered and controlled separately. The presence of both environmental and human-associated microbes, along with their associated antibiotic resistance genes, in the face of stressors, including antimicrobial chemicals, creates a unique opportunity for the undesirable spread of antibiotic resistance. In this review, we summarize studies and findings related to various interactions between human-associated bacteria, environmental bacteria, and built environment conditions, and particularly their relation to antibiotic resistance, aiming to guide "healthy" building design.
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