Structure and Function of the Microbiota in Domestic Environments
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 24120
Special Issue Editor
Interests: human microbiome; built environment microbiome; hygiene; microbial ecology
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Dear Colleagues,
In industrialized countries, people spend up to 90% of their life time indoors, including domestic environments. The domestic environment is characterized by very fluctuating environmental conditions and sharp physicochemical gradients, which significantly shape the structure (community composition) and function (physiology) of the resident microbiomes. An important role of the domestic microbiome for human health and well-being is anticipated, but far from being fully understood.
Clearly, the domestic environment is a place where infections frequently occur and infection chains need to be controlled and broken by antimicrobial hygiene measures. In contrast, a depletion of microbial diversity in the built and domestic environment is supposed to contribute to an increasing prevalence of allergy and asthma in industrialized countries. Moreover, the unreasonable use of antimicrobial and disinfecting agents for household cleaning might select for resistant and extremophilic species. Probably, a successful management of the domestic microbiome for the sake of human health will require a well-balanced mixture of antimicrobial and “probiotic” measures.
The aim of this special issue is to increase and collect knowledge about the composition and functionality of the microbiome of domestic environments as well as smart microbiome management strategies to sustain and increase human health and well-being in the domestic environment.
Prof. Dr. Markus Egert
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- built environment microbiome
- household hygiene
- hygiene hypothesis
- cleaning
- probiotic cleaning
- objects of daily use
- health
- antimicrobials
- infection chain
- malodor
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