Overview
- A paper in Microbial Biotechnology introduces the Database of Salutogenic Potential as an early, expandable, open-access resource.
- The catalogue currently lists 124 candidate microbial taxa and 14 natural biochemical compounds linked to outcomes such as immune regulation and stress reduction.
- The authors aim to inform public health policy, urban design and ecosystem restoration, with planned integration into One Health approaches.
- The team emphasizes the resource is not a clinical guideline but a foundation consolidating evidence on salutogenic taxa, their reported benefits and environmental origins.
- Related research by the lead author finds urban soils carry higher pathogen loads, including several-fold more Klebsiella pneumoniae, underscoring parallel risk assessment during biodiversity restoration.