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Cleanliness in context: reconciling hygiene with a modern microbial perspective

2016-12-20

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The concept of hygiene is rooted in the relationship between cleanliness and the maintenance of good health. Since the widespread acceptance of the germ theory of disease, hygiene has become increasingly conflated with that of sterilization. Recent research on microbial ecology is demonstrating that humans have intimate and evolutionarily significant relationships with a diverse assemblage of microorganisms (our...

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Literature Corpus work: 09a39dff-97bf-59da-aa31-ed32d4e62e08
DOI: 10.1101/095745

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