Abstract Purpose of Review The infant gut microbiota has become a focus of multiple
epidemiologic and cohort studies. This microbiome is derived from the mother (via the …

The quality of the indoor environment significantly impacts human health and productivity,
especially given the amount of time individuals spend indoors globally. While chemical …

This guideline was developed as a joint interdisciplinary European project, including
physicians from all relevant disciplines as well as patients. It is a consensus‐based …

We spend the majority of our lives indoors; yet, we currently lack a comprehensive
understanding of how the microbial communities found in homes vary across broad …

Buildings represent habitats for microorganisms that can have direct or indirect effects on the
quality of our living spaces, health, and well-being. Over the last ten years, new research …

There is accumulating evidence to suggest that the environmental microbiome plays a
significant role in asthma development. The very low prevalence of asthma in populations …

In the constructed habitat in which we spend up to 90% of our time, architectural design
influences occupants' behavioral patterns, interactions with objects, surfaces, rituals, the …

Among the many areas being revolutionized by the recent introduction of culture-
independent microbial identification techniques is investigation of the relationship between …

Most people spend the majority of their lives indoors. Research over the last thirty years has
focused on investigating the mechanisms through which specific elements of the built …

Under sustained, elevated building moisture conditions, bacterial and fungal growth occurs.
The goal of this study was to characterize microbial growth in floor dust at variable …