2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic: built environment considerations to reduce transmission

L Dietz, PF Horve, DA Coil, M Fretz, JA Eisen… - Msystems, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
With the rapid spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
that results in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), corporate entities, federal, state …

Microbiome assembly in fermented foods

NL Louw, K Lele, R Ye, CB Edwards… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
For thousands of years, humans have enjoyed the novel flavors, increased shelf-life, and
nutritional benefits that microbes provide in fermented foods and beverages. Recent …

Microbiome helper: a custom and streamlined workflow for microbiome research

AM Comeau, GM Douglas, MGI Langille - MSystems, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Sequence-based approaches to study microbiomes, such as 16S rRNA gene sequencing
and metagenomics, are uncovering associations between microbial taxa and a myriad of …

Waste not, want not: why rarefying microbiome data is inadmissible

PJ McMurdie, S Holmes - PLoS computational biology, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Current practice in the normalization of microbiome count data is inefficient in the statistical
sense. For apparently historical reasons, the common approach is either to use simple …

Sequencing and beyond: integrating molecular'omics' for microbial community profiling

EA Franzosa, T Hsu, A Sirota-Madi… - Nature Reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
High-throughput DNA sequencing has proven invaluable for investigating diverse
environmental and host-associated microbial communities. In this Review, we discuss …

Microbiology of the built environment

JA Gilbert, B Stephens - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2018 - nature.com
The built environment comprises all structures built by humans, including our homes,
workplaces, schools and vehicles. As in any ecosystem on Earth, microorganisms have …

Regulation of the immune system by biodiversity from the natural environment: an ecosystem service essential to health

GA Rook - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Epidemiological studies suggest that living close to the natural environment is associated
with long-term health benefits including reduced death rates, reduced cardiovascular …

Dispersal in microbes: fungi in indoor air are dominated by outdoor air and show dispersal limitation at short distances

RI Adams, M Miletto, JW Taylor, TD Bruns - The ISME journal, 2013 - academic.oup.com
The indoor microbiome is a complex system that is thought to depend on dispersal from the
outdoor biome and the occupants' microbiome combined with selective pressures imposed …

Urban soil and human health: a review

G Li, GX Sun, Y Ren, XS Luo… - European Journal of Soil …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Rapid industrialization and urbanization during recent decades are having dramatic effects
on urban soil properties and lead to large discharges of pollutants, which inevitably affect …

Microbiome interconnectedness throughout environments with major consequences for healthy people and a healthy planet

A Sessitsch, S Wakelin, M Schloter… - Microbiology and …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Microbiomes have highly important roles for ecosystem functioning and carry out key
functions that support planetary health, including nutrient cycling, climate regulation, and …