ReviewInfection2014
Particle exposures and infections.
Review in Infection, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.
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32 citing papers in PubMed, 73 citations in OpenAlex.
- A perfusable decellularized plant-based air-liquid-interface-on-a-chip for investigating inorganic dust aerosol exposure.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Dust air pollution and hospital visits for respiratory, cardiovascular, and eye diseases in Eastern Iran.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Inhalation of concentrated ambient PM2.5 promotes inactivation of telomerase reverse transcriptase, telomere shortening, and senescence of multiple cell types in mice.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2025Article
- Infectious disease responses to human climate change adaptations.Global change biology · 2024Review
- Impact of diesel exhaust particles on infections with Mycobacterium bovis BCG in in vitro human macrophages and an in vivo Galleria mellonella model.Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) · 2024Article
- Ecological-level factors associated with tuberculosis incidence and mortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Population impact of fine particulate matter on tuberculosis risk in China: a causal inference.BMC public health · 2023Article
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- Deleterious Effect of Air Pollution on Human Microbial Community and Bacterial Flora: A Short Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Cumulative occupational exposure to inorganic dust and fumes and invasive pneumococcal disease with pneumonia.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2022Article
- Lagged Effects of Exposure to Air Pollutants on the Risk of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in a Highly Polluted Region.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Wood smoke particle exposure in mice reduces the severity of influenza infection.Toxicology and applied pharmacology · 2021Article
- Effect of ambient air pollution on tuberculosis risks and mortality in Shandong, China: a multi-city modeling study of the short- and long-term effects of pollutants.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2021Article
- Long-term exposure to indoor air pollution and risk of tuberculosis.Indoor air · 2021Article
- Aryl hydrocarbon receptor deficiency causes the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease through the integration of multiple pathogenic mechanisms.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2021Article
- Particulate Matter (PMInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Inorganic particulate matter modulates non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae growth: a link between chronic bacterial infection and geogenic particles.Environmental geochemistry and health · 2020Article
- Air pollutants disrupt iron homeostasis to impact oxidant generation, biological effects, and tissue injury.Free radical biology & medicine · 2020Review
- Occupational exposure to dust and to fumes, work as a welder and invasive pneumococcal disease risk.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2020Article
- Carnosine Supplementation Mitigates the Deleterious Effects of Particulate Matter Exposure in Mice.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2019Article
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Abstract
Particle exposures increase the risk for human infections. Particles can deposit in the nose, pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi, and distal lung and, accordingly, the respiratory tract is the system most frequently infected after such exposure; however, meningitis also occurs. Cigarette smoking, burning of biomass, dust storms, mining, agricultural work, environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), wood stoves, traffic-related emissions, gas stoves, and ambient air pollution are all particle-related exposures associated with an increased risk for respiratory infections. In addition, cigarette smoking, burning of biomass, dust storms, mining, and ETS can result in an elevated risk for tuberculosis, atypical mycobacterial infections, and meningitis. One of the mechanisms for particle-related infections includes an accumulation of iron by surface functional groups of particulate matter (PM). Since elevations in metal availability are common to every particle exposure, all PM potentially contributes to these infections. Therefore, exposures to wood stove emissions, diesel exhaust, and air pollution particles are predicted to increase the incidence and prevalence of tuberculosis, atypical mycobacterial infections, and meningitis, albeit these elevations are likely to be small and detectable only in large population studies. Since iron accumulation correlates with the presence of surface functional groups and dependent metal coordination by the PM, the risk for infection continues as long as the particle is retained. Subsequently, it is expected that the cessation of exposure will diminish, but not totally reverse, the elevated risk for infection.
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