Microorganisms and Their Incredible Potential to Face Societal Challenges
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Dr. Mireille Fouillaud
Dr. Mireille Fouillaud
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Laboratory of Chemistry and Biotechnology of Natural Products, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of La Réunion, 15 Avenue René Cassin, CS 92003, CEDEX 09, 97744 Saint-Denis, France
Interests: microbiology; biotechnology; specialized metabolites; fermentations; pigments
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Dear Colleagues,
There are billions of microorganisms on Earth, and they have been around for a very long time. Humans rely on microorganisms’ capacities in many aspects of their daily life. Indeed, microbes are well known for their abilities to improve our nutrition through increasing the digestibility of foods or through the production of vitamins. They are also fully involved in depollution processes and in the production of natural medicines as antibiotics or anticancer agents, and they even participate in the esthetic dimension of life with the synthesis of colored molecules. This is mainly due to their incredible capacities of adaptation and biotransformation, which are based on their great genetic potential and diverse biosynthetic pathways. A societal evolution toward a sustainable circular bioeconomy is underway. Thus, we have the duty to enlarge our knowledge on the potentialities of the microbial world and on how microbes can help to address the various urgent problems society is currently facing. Therefore, studies concerning innovative microbial biotechnologies, novel microbial biosynthesis pathways, or the bioproduction of original molecules are of great interest in this Topical Collection.
Dr. Mireille Fouillaud
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Keywords
- bacteria
- fungi
- microalgae
- virus
- fermentation
- biotransformation
- biotechnologies
- specialized metabolite
- secondary metabolite
- enzyme
- genetic
- metabolomic
Published Papers (1 paper)
2023
Open AccessArticle
Microbiome of Clothing Items Worn for a Single Day in a Non-Healthcare Setting
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Kelly Whitehead, Jake Eppinger, Vanita Srinivasan, M. Khalid Ijaz, Raymond W. Nims and Julie McKinney
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Abstract
When worn, clothing acquires a microbiome of bacteria and fungi derived from the wearer’s skin and from the environment. The types of bacteria and fungi that may be recovered from clothing in healthcare settings have been well characterized, but less is known regarding
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When worn, clothing acquires a microbiome of bacteria and fungi derived from the wearer’s skin and from the environment. The types of bacteria and fungi that may be recovered from clothing in healthcare settings have been well characterized, but less is known regarding the microbiome of clothing worn in non-healthcare settings and the possible roles that such clothing may play in microbial exchange. Culture-based methods and culture-independent genomic sequencing were used to enumerate and identify bacteria and fungi recovered from T-shirts, baby onesies, socks, and underwear worn for a single day after having been purchased new, washed, and dried. The highest bacterial loads were recovered from socks, underwear, and onesies (>10
6 colony-forming units [cfu]/sample) and the highest fungal loads were obtained from socks and underwear (>5 × 10
2 cfu/sample). The sequencing method identified opportunistic pathogens present in the samples, including members of genus
Staphylococcus and
Corynebacterium, as well as anaerobic members of the family
Clostridiales. The opportunistic fungal pathogen
Candida parapsilosis was identified in a high proportion of worn clothing samples. These results suggest that clothing may represent a pathogen reservoir and a vector for microbial exchange between household occupants or the community outside of the home.
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