In the Shadow of Medicine: The Glaring Absence of Occurrence Records of Human-Hosted Biodiversity
Rémy Poncet, Olivier Gargominy · 2024
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Remy Poncet and Olivier Gargominy wrote a paper in two thousand twenty-four about a gap in records of the microbes that live on and in people. Bacteria tied to human health are widely studied in labs. Yet records that say where, when, and in whom a microbe was found are rare in shared databases.
The authors argue that this gap slows work on disease prevention and on how human, animal, and environmental health connect. They point to a French national system for nature records as a ready model. Medical staff could use such a system to log and share records of human-linked bacteria with little extra effort.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Rémy Poncet, Olivier Gargominy |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 19 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |