ArticleMicrobial ecology2019
The Airplane Cabin Microbiome.
Article in Microbial ecology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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15 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Alterations of human skin microbiome and expansion of antimicrobial resistance after systemic antibiotics.Science translational medicine · 2021Trial
- Travel microbiota: a novel frontier in travel medicine exploring microbial shifts across transportation modes.Tropical diseases, travel medicine and vaccines · 2026Review
- Short-time thermal inactivation of surrogates of the public transport microbiome with a low-cost thermoresistometer.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Metagenomic profiling of airborne microbial communities from aircraft filters and face masks.Microbiome · 2025Article
- The indoors microbiome and human health.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2024Review
- Pilots, Astronauts, and the Aerospace Microbiota: A Narrative Review of Occupational Impact.Cureus · 2024Review
- Enrichment of human nasopharyngeal bacteriome with bacteria from dust after short-term exposure to indoor environment: a pilot study.BMC microbiology · 2023Article
- Legionella and Air Transport: A Study of Environmental Contamination.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Analyzing Cross-country Pandemic Connectedness During COVID-19 Using a Spatial-Temporal Database: Network Analysis.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2021Article
- Shared bicycle microbial community: a potential antibiotic-resistant bacteria warehouse.Folia microbiologica · 2021Article
- Epidemic spread simulation in an area with a high-density crowd using a SEIR-based model.PloS one · 2021Article
- Performance evaluation of a new custom, multi-component DNA isolation method optimized for use in shotgun metagenomic sequencing-based aerosol microbiome research.Environmental microbiome · 2020Article
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- Microbial invasions in terrestrial ecosystems.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2019Review
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Abstract
Serving over three billion passengers annually, air travel serves as a conduit for infectious disease spread, including emerging infections and pandemics. Over two dozen cases of in-flight transmissions have been documented. To understand these risks, a characterization of the airplane cabin microbiome is necessary. Our study team collected 229 environmental samples on ten transcontinental US flights with subsequent 16S rRNA sequencing. We found that bacterial communities were largely derived from human skin and oral commensals, as well as environmental generalist bacteria. We identified clear signatures for air versus touch surface microbiome, but not for individual types of touch surfaces. We also found large flight-to-flight beta diversity variations with no distinguishing signatures of individual flights, rather a high between-flight diversity for all touch surfaces and particularly for air samples. There was no systematic pattern of microbial community change from pre- to post-flight. Our findings are similar to those of other recent studies of the microbiome of built environments. In summary, the airplane cabin microbiome has immense airplane to airplane variability. The vast majority of airplane-associated microbes are human commensals or non-pathogenic, and the results provide a baseline for non-crisis-level airplane microbiome conditions.
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