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    Indoor Dust as a Matrix for Surveillance of COVID-19
    Observation
    Indoor Dust as a Matrix for Surveillance of COVID-19

    Environmental surveillance to assess pathogen presence within a community is proving to be a critical tool to protect public health, and it is especially relevant during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Importantly, environmental surveillance tools also allow for the detection of asymptomatic disease carriers and for routine monitoring of a large number of people as has been shown for SARS-CoV-2 wastewater monitoring.

    Nicole Renninger, Nicholas Nastasi, Ashleigh Bope, Samuel J. Cochran, Sarah R. Haines, Neeraja Balasubrahmaniam, Katelyn Stuart, Aaron Bivins, Kyle Bibby, Natalie M. Hull, Karen C. Dannemiller
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    2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: Built Environment Considerations To Reduce Transmission
    Editor's Pick Minireview | Applied and Environmental Science
    2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: Built Environment Considerations To Reduce Transmission

    With the rapid spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that results in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), corporate entities, federal, state, county, and city governments, universities, school districts, places of worship, prisons, health care facilities, assisted living organizations, daycares, homeowners, and other building owners and occupants have an opportunity to reduce the potential for...

    Leslie Dietz, Patrick F. Horve, David A. Coil, Mark Fretz, Jonathan A. Eisen, Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg
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    Quantifying and Understanding Well-to-Well Contamination in Microbiome Research
    Research Article | Novel Systems Biology Techniques
    Quantifying and Understanding Well-to-Well Contamination in Microbiome Research

    Microbiome research has uncovered magnificent biological and chemical stories across nearly all areas of life science, at times creating controversy when findings reveal fantastic descriptions of microbes living and even thriving in what were once thought to be sterile environments. Scientists have refuted many of these claims because of contamination, which has led to robust requirements, including the use of controls, for validating...

    Jeremiah J. Minich, Jon G. Sanders, Amnon Amir, Greg Humphrey, Jack A. Gilbert, Rob Knight
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    KatharoSeq Enables High-Throughput Microbiome Analysis from Low-Biomass Samples
    Research Article | Novel Systems Biology Techniques
    KatharoSeq Enables High-Throughput Microbiome Analysis from Low-Biomass Samples

    Various indoor, outdoor, and host-associated environments contain small quantities of microbial biomass and represent a niche that is often understudied because of technical constraints. Many studies that attempt to evaluate these low-biomass microbiome samples are riddled with erroneous results that are typically false positive signals obtained during the sampling process. We have investigated various low-biomass kits and methods to...

    Jeremiah J. Minich, Qiyun Zhu, Stefan Janssen, Ryan Hendrickson, Amnon Amir, Russ Vetter, John Hyde, Megan M. Doty, Kristina Stillwell, James Benardini, Jae H. Kim, Eric E. Allen, Kasthuri Venkateswaran, Rob Knight
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    The Oral and Skin Microbiomes of Captive Komodo Dragons Are Significantly Shared with Their Habitat
    Research Article | Host-Microbe Biology
    The Oral and Skin Microbiomes of Captive Komodo Dragons Are Significantly Shared with Their Habitat
    Embriette R. Hyde, Jose A. Navas-Molina, Se Jin Song, Jordan G. Kueneman, Gail Ackermann, Cesar Cardona, Gregory Humphrey, Don Boyer, Tom Weaver, Joseph R. Mendelson, Valerie J. McKenzie, Jack A. Gilbert, Rob Knight
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    Urban Transit System Microbial Communities Differ by Surface Type and Interaction with Humans and the Environment
    Editor's Pick Research Article | Applied and Environmental Science
    Urban Transit System Microbial Communities Differ by Surface Type and Interaction with Humans and the Environment

    Mass transit environments, specifically, urban subways, are distinct microbial environments with high occupant densities, diversities, and turnovers, and they are thus especially relevant to public health. Despite this, only three culture-independent subway studies have been performed, all since 2013 and all with widely differing designs and conclusions. In this study, we profiled the Boston subway system, which provides 238 million...

    Tiffany Hsu, Regina Joice, Jose Vallarino, Galeb Abu-Ali, Erica M. Hartmann, Afrah Shafquat, Casey DuLong, Catherine Baranowski, Dirk Gevers, Jessica L. Green, Xochitl C. Morgan, John D. Spengler, Curtis Huttenhower
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    The Built Environment Is a Microbial Wasteland
    Commentary | Applied and Environmental Science
    The Built Environment Is a Microbial Wasteland

    Humanity’s transition from the outdoor environment to the built environment (BE) has reduced our exposure to microbial diversity. The relative importance of factors that contribute to the composition of human-dominated BE microbial communities remains largely unknown.

    Sean M. Gibbons
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    Geography and Location Are the Primary Drivers of Office Microbiome Composition
    Editor's Pick Research Article | Applied and Environmental Science
    Geography and Location Are the Primary Drivers of Office Microbiome Composition

    Our study highlights several points that should impact the design of future studies of the microbiology of BEs. First, projects tracking changes in BE bacterial communities should focus sampling efforts on surveying different locations in offices and in different cities but not necessarily different materials or different offices in the same city. Next, disturbance due to repeated sampling, though detectable, is small compared to that...

    John Chase, Jennifer Fouquier, Mahnaz Zare, Derek L. Sonderegger, Rob Knight, Scott T. Kelley, Jeffrey Siegel, J. Gregory Caporaso
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