Appendix

All studies were selected based on the primary criterion: studies that substantively address microbiology literacy, microbial literacy, or microbiome literacy as a core construct rather than tangential references for theoretical background (e.g., germophobia, generic COVID-19, or AMR as an issue) or methodological references (PRISMA, NVivo, Lotka distribution).

Contents of the Appendix: Appendix A. List of the 42 Corpus Studies with Complete Bibliographic Metadata Appendix B. Thematic Data Extraction Results of the 42 Studies (NVivo 14) Appendix C. Verification of Corpus Consistency with Body-Text Claims Appendix D. Database Search Strategy Appendix E. Study Quality Assessment (CASP-adapted) Abbreviations: Domain: KO = Cognitive; AF = Affective; PS = Psychomotor; BH = Behavioral; CS = Critical-Systems Thinking Dimension: M = Microbes & Their Activities; H = Health & Disease; E = Environment & Biosphere; B = Biotechnology; MB = Microbiome; ES = Ethics-Social-Policy