Shaping the subway microbiome through probiotic-based sanitation during the COVID-19 emergency: a pre-post case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the extent to which the public transportation environment, such as in subways, may be important for the transmission of potential pathogenic microbes among humans, with the possibility of rapidly impacting large numbers of people. For these reasons, sanitation procedures, including massive use of chemical disinfection, were mandatorily introduced during the emergency and remain in place. However, most chemical disinfectants have temporary action and a high environmental impact, potentially enhancing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) of the treated microbes. By contrast, a biological and eco-sustainable probiotic-based sanitation (PBS) procedure was recently shown to stably shape the microbiome of treated environments, providing effectiv

SUBMITTER: D'Accolti M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10060134 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature