Communicating the promise, risks, and ethics of large-scale, open space microbiome and metagenome research

Microbiome

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Shamarina, Daria ^a   Stoyantcheva, Iana ^a   Mason, Christopher E ^b,c,d   Bibby, Kyle ^e   Elhaik, Eran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine   (United States)

^d FEIL FAMILY BRAIN AND MIND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

Built environment; Concerns; Ethics; Metagenome; MetaSUB; Microbiome; Public

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BIODIVERSITY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); LEGIONELLA; METAGENOME; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MICROBIOME; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; NOTE; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; METAGENOMICS; MICROFLORA; PUBLIC OPINION; PUBLIC RELATIONS; RESEARCH; RESEARCH ETHICS;

ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; ETHICS, RESEARCH; HUMANS; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOTA; PUBLIC OPINION; PUBLIC RELATIONS; RESEARCH;

EID: 85039840115     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20492618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40168-017-0349-4     Document Type: Note

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