The built environment is a microbial wasteland

mSystems

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Gibbons, Sean M ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Built environment; Hygiene hypothesis; Indoor; Microbiome; Office; Outdoor

Indexed keywords

EID: 85041512425     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23795077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mSystems.00033-16     Document Type: Review

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