Microbiomes of the built environment | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-03

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00:03:23 1 Types of Built Environments For Which Microbiomes Have Been Studied
00:05:26 2 Results from Studies of the Microbiomes of the Built Environment
00:05:40 2.1 General Biogeography
00:06:40 2.2 Human Health and Microbiomes of the Built Environment
00:10:11 2.3 Components of the Built Environment that Likely Impact Microbiomes
00:11:45 2.4 Impact of Microbiomes on the Built Environment
00:12:21 2.5 Possible Uses in Forensics
00:13:02 2.6 Odor and Microbes in the Built Environment
00:13:58 3 Methods Used
00:14:59 4 See also
00:15:21 5 External links
00:15:30 5.1 Examples of projects
00:17:23 5.2 Related journals
00:17:43 5.3 Societies and organizations
00:18:10 5.4 News and related coverage



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SUMMARY
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Microbiomes of the built environment  is a field of inquiry focusing on the study of the communities of microorganisms found in human constructed environments (i.e., the built environment). It is also sometimes referred to as "microbiology of the built environment".
This field encompasses studies of any kind of microorganism (e.g. bacteria, archaea, viruses, various microbial eukaryotes including yeasts, and others sometimes generally referred to as protists) and studies of any kind of built environment such as buildings, vehicles, and water systems.
Some key highlights emphasizing the growing importance of the field include:

The field has accelerated somewhat in recent years, with significant funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. and with the increase attention being given to microbiomes and communities of microbes generally.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine of the USA is conducting a study of this field with the study entitled  Microbiomes of the Built Environment: From Research to Application".
The American Association for the Advancement of Science ran a symposium on the topic in 2014.
The American Academy of Microbiology had a colloquium on this topic in September 2015 and published a report "Microbiology of Built Environments".A 2016 paper by Brent Stephens  highlights some of the key findings of studies of "microbiomes of the indoor environment".  These key findings include those listed below:

"Culture-independent methods reveal vastly greater microbial diversity compared to culture-based methods"
"Indoor spaces often harbor unique microbial communities"
"Indoor bacterial communities often originate from indoor sources."
"Humans are also major sources of bacteria to indoor air"
"Building design and operation can influence indoor microbial communities."The microbiomes of the built environment are being studied for multiple reasons including how they may impact the health of humans and other organisms occupying the built environment but also some non health reasons such as diagnostics of building properties, for forensic application, impact on food production, impact on built environment function, and more.