Westernization has propelled changes in urbanization and architecture, altering our
exposure to the outdoor environment from that experienced during most of human evolution …

Indoor environments serve as habitat for humans and are replete with various reservoirs and
niches for microorganisms. Microorganisms enter indoor spaces with their human and non …

Expanding urbanization is a major factor behind rapidly declining biodiversity. It has been
proposed that in urbanized societies, the rarity of contact with diverse environmental …

Urbanization represents a profound shift in human behaviour, and has considerable cultural
and health-associated consequences,. Here, we investigate chemical and microbial …

Background Architectural design has the potential to influence the microbiology of the built
environment, with implications for human health and well-being, but the impact of design on …

Buildings are complex ecosystems that house trillions of microorganisms interacting with
each other, with humans and with their environment. Understanding the ecological and …

People's desire to understand the environments in which they live is a natural one. People
spend most of their time in spaces and structures designed, built, and managed by humans …

The rise of urbanization and an increasingly indoor lifestyle has affected human interactions
with our microbiota in unprecedented ways. We discuss how this lifestyle may influence …

The microbiota of the built environment is linked to usage, materials and, perhaps most
importantly, human health. Many studies have attempted to identify ways of modulating …

Most of our time is spent indoors where we are exposed to a wide array of different
microorganisms living on surfaces and in the air of our homes. Despite their ubiquity and …