Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-2-2019
Abstract
The microbiome of the built environment has important implications for human health and wellbeing; however, bidirectional exchange of microbes between occupants and surfaces can be confounded by lifestyle, architecture, and external environmental exposures. Here, we present a longitudinal study of United States Air Force Academy cadets (n = 34), which have substantial homogeneity in lifestyle, diet, and age, all factors that influence the human microbiome. We characterized bacterial communities associated with (1) skin and gut samples from roommate pairs, (2) four built environment sample locations inside the pairs’ dormitory rooms, (3) four built environment sample locations within shared spaces in the dormitory, and (4) room-matched outdoor samples from the window ledge of their rooms.
DOI
10.1186/s40168-019-0686-6
Source Publication
Microbiome
Recommended Citation
Sharma, A., Richardson, M., Cralle, L., Stamper, C. E., Maestre, J. P., Stearns-Yoder, K. A., Postolache, T. T., Bates, K. L., Kinney, K. A., Brenner, L. A., Lowry, C. A., Gilbert, J. A., & Hoisington, A. J. (2019). Longitudinal homogenization of the microbiome between both occupants and the built environment in a cohort of United States Air Force Cadets. Microbiome, 7(1), 70. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-019-0686-6
Comments
This is an open access article published by BMC, and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. CC BY 4.0
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