In the run up to its anniversary year in 2022, Microbiology is launching a series of themed collections which celebrate the breadth of microbiology and showcase why microbiology matters. This month we are excited to launch the Symbiosis collection, guest-edited by Professor Michael Brockhurst (University of Manchester) and Dr Rebecca J Hall (University of Birmingham).
Researchers are concerned that attitudes to hygiene are being undermined by the hygiene hypothesis, and that this misleading misnomer could contribute to the spread of infectious disease.
