Footwear microclimate and its effects on the microbial community of the plantar skin
| العنوان: | Footwear microclimate and its effects on the microbial community of the plantar skin |
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| المؤلفون: | Yuguo Li, Te Miao, Peihua Wang, Nan Zhang |
| المصدر: | Scientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2021) Scientific Reports |
| بيانات النشر: | Nature Portfolio, 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Adult, Male, Quality of life, musculoskeletal diseases, Science, Microbial Consortia, Microclimate, Article, law.invention, Toxicology, law, Bacterial development, otorhinolaryngologic diseases, Humans, Medicine, Skin, Multidisciplinary, Foot, business.industry, Significant difference, technology, industry, and agriculture, Gait, Mechanical engineering, Shoes, body regions, Ventilation (architecture), Linear correlation, business, Foot (unit) |
| الوصف: | The association between the footwear microclimate and microbial community on the foot plantar skin was investigated by experiments with three participants. Novel methods were developed for measuring in-shoe temperature and humidity at five footwear regions, as well as the overall ventilation rate inside the footwear. Three types of footwear were tested including casual shoes, running shoes, and perforated shoes for pairwise comparison of footwear microclimate and corresponding microbial community on the skin. The major findings are as follows: (1) footwear types make a significant difference to in-shoe temperature at the instep region with the casual shoes sustaining the warmest of all types; (2) significant differences were observed in local internal absolute humidity between footwear types, with the casual shoes sustaining the highest level of humidity at most regions; (3) the perforated shoes provided the highest ventilation rate, followed by running and casual shoes, and the faster the gait, the larger the discrepancy in ventilation rate between footwear types; (4) the casual shoes seemed to provide the most favorable internal environment for bacterial growth at the distal plantar skin; and (5) the bacterial growth at the distal plantar skin showed a positive linear correlation with the in-shoe temperature and absolute humidity, and a negative linear correlation with the ventilation rate. The ventilation rate seemed to be a more reliable indicator of the bacterial growth. Above all, we can conclude that footwear microclimate varies in footwear types, which makes contributions to the bacterial growth on the foot plantar skin. |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2045-2322 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::2b172a039588e881046101f29a11c379 https://doaj.org/article/06709731644c448e8c14510c8e416edf |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....2b172a039588e881046101f29a11c379 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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