ReviewCurrent environmental health reports2016
Pediatric Asthma and the Indoor Microbial Environment.
Review in Current environmental health reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- The role of the early-life gut microbiome in childhood asthma.Gut microbes · 2025Review
- Crowded housing, indoor environment and children's respiratory, allergic and general health in Sweden: a cross-sectional study.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Why has epidemiology not (yet) succeeded in identifying the origin of the asthma epidemic?International journal of epidemiology · 2023Article
- Effective Ways to Prevent Allergic Diseases: Where Do We Stand?Handbook of experimental pharmacology · 2022Article
- Turning the Lungs Inside Out: The Intersecting Microbiomes of the Lungs and the Built Environment.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2020Article
- Respiratory diseases and allergy in farmers working with livestock: a EAACI position paper.Clinical and translational allergy · 2020Review
- Variability of indoor fungal microbiome of green and non-green low-income homes in Cincinnati, Ohio.The Science of the total environment · 2018Article
- An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report: Presentations and Discussion of the Sixth Jack Pepys Workshop on Asthma in the Workplace.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2017Article
- Fungal Exposure and Asthma: IgE and Non-IgE-Mediated Mechanisms.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2016Review
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Abstract
The global increase in the prevalence of asthma has been related to several risk factors; many of them linked to the "westernization" process and the characteristics of the indoor microbial environment during early life may play an important role. Living in moisture damaged homes contributes to the exacerbation and development of asthma. However, living in homes with a rich variety and high levels of microbes (e.g., traditional farming environments) may confer protection. While the results of previous research are rather consistent when it comes to observation/report of indoor moisture damage or when comparing farming versus non-farming homes, when actual measures targeting indoor microbial exposure are included, the picture becomes less clear and the associations appear inconsistent. This may partly be due to limitations of sampling and measurement techniques that make comparisons difficult and provide an incomplete picture of the indoor microbial environment and in particular also human exposure. In this regard, new generation sequencing techniques represent a potential revolution in better understanding the impact of the indoor microbiome on human health.
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