Great article from Brooke Borel writing for NOVA Online, “Manipulating the Unseen Microbial Ecosystem–The Future of Hospitals?”.
This covers some of the background of microbiology in hospitals, discusses work by both the BioBE Center and microBEnet… and of course the Hospital Microbiome Project as well as the NICU study from Jill Banfield’s lab. The article doesn’t explicitly go into the topic of building probiotics (a favorite of ours) but does discuss possible implications of these kinds of studies for building design.
A very good introduction to the topic…
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