Matters Microbial #71: Disinfecting the Built Environment December 25, 2024
Ever wonder what’s growing on your toothbrush? Today, Dr. Erica Hartmann, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss how antimicrobial resistance can occur in the built environment we see all around us every day—and why it is vital to learn more about this association.
Host: Mark O. Martin
Guest: Erica Hartmann
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Links for this episode
- An essay on the Hygiene Hypothesis.
- An overview of the “built environment.”
- The trouble with triclosan.
- An essay on heavy metal resistance.
- An article from Dr. Hartmann’s group about the toothbrush microbiome (“Project Pottymouth”).
- A link to the Human Microbiome Project.
- An overview of antibiotic resistance and antibiotic resistance genes.
- An article about silver nanoparticles on toothbrushes.
- A blog post about probiotic cleaning products.
- An interesting post from Dr. Hartmann’s team about viruses in your bathroom.
- A video by Dr. Hartmann about her research.
- Dr. Hartmann’s faculty website.
- Dr. Hartmann’s research team website.
Intro music is by Reber Clark
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