ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2018
Pig Farmers' Homes Harbor More Diverse Airborne Bacterial Communities Than Pig Stables or Suburban Homes.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The Indoor Microbiome: Sampling, Analysis and Emerging Trends.Environmental microbiology reports · 2026Pooled it
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- Resistomes from oxytetracycline-treated pigs are readily transferred to untreated pen mates.Animal microbiome · 2024Article
- Effects of microbes in pig farms on occupational exposed persons and the environment.AMB Express · 2023Article
- A comparison of passive and active dust sampling methods for measuring airborne methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in pig farms.Annals of work exposures and health · 2023Article
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- Applying the exposome concept to working life health: The EU EPHOR project.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2022Article
- Cow Farmers' Homes Host More Diverse Airborne Bacterial Communities Than Pig Farmers' Homes and Suburban Homes.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Variation in Microbial Exposure at the Human-Animal Interface and the Implications for Microbiome-Mediated Health Outcome.mSystems · 2021Article
- Altered gut microbiome compositions are associated with the severity of asthma.Journal of thoracic disease · 2021Article
- Evaluation of the microbiome composition in particulate matter inside and outside of pig houses.Journal of animal science and technology · 2021Article
- Every breath you take: Impacts of environmental dust exposure on intestinal barrier function-from the gut-lung axis to COVID-19.American journal of physiology. Gastrointestinal and liver physiology · 2021Article
- Combinations of self-reported rhinitis, conjunctivitis, and asthma predicts IgE sensitization in more than 25,000 Danes.Clinical and translational allergy · 2021Article
- Comparative assessment of faecal microbial composition and metabonome of swine, farmers and human control.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Building upon current knowledge and techniques of indoor microbiology to construct the next era of theory into microorganisms, health, and the built environment.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2020Review
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- The internationalization of human microbiome research.Current opinion in microbiology · 2019Review
- One Health Relationships Between Human, Animal, and Environmental Microbiomes: A Mini-Review.Frontiers in public health · 2018Review
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Abstract
Airborne bacterial communities are subject to conditions ill-suited to microbial activity and growth. In spite of this, air is an important transfer medium for bacteria, with the bacteria in indoor air having potentially major consequences for the health of a building's occupants. A major example is the decreased diversity and altered composition of indoor airborne microbial communities as a proposed explanation for the increasing prevalence of asthma and allergies worldwide. Previous research has shown that living on a farm confers protection against development of asthma and allergies, with airborne bacteria suggested as playing a role in this protective effect. However, the composition of this beneficial microbial community has still not been identified. We sampled settled airborne dust using a passive dust sampler from Danish pig stables, associated farmers' homes, and from suburban homes (267 samples in total) and carried out quantitative PCR measurements of bacterial abundance and MiSeq sequencing of the V3-V4 region of bacterial 16S rRNA genes found in these samples. Airborne bacteria had a greater diversity and were significantly more abundant in pig stables and farmers' homes than suburban homes (Wilcoxon rank sum test
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