This is Karen Dannemiller’s talk on the nexus of housing characteristics, indoor microbial communities, and asthma severity. This was recorded at the MoBE 2017 symposium in Washington D.C. If you’re interested, check out all of the other speakers from MoBE 2017 on our YouTube channel!
There is a recent review paper that may be of interest: Pediatric Asthma and the Indoor Microbial Environment | SpringerLink Abstract The global increase in the prevalence of asthma has been related to several risk factors; many of them linked to the “westernization” process and the characteristics of the indoor microbial environment during early life …
The American Society for Microbiology meeting is starting tomorrow and there are multiple things related to microbiology of the built environment there. These include a session that was organized by Brendan Bohannan which I am chairing. The detail of the session are below: Session Title: The Great Indoors: Recent Advances in the Ecology of Built Environments …