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ArticleGut microbes

Influence of pig farming on human Gut Microbiota: role of airborne microbial communities.

Julia Moor, Tsering Wüthrich, Suzanne Aebi, Nadezda Mostacci, Gudrun Overesch, Anne Oppliger, Markus Hilty

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Article in Gut microbes. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Julia MoorInstitute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Tsering WüthrichInstitute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Suzanne AebiInstitute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Nadezda MostacciInstitute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Gudrun OvereschInstitute of Veterinary Bacteriology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Anne OppligerUnisante, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Markus HiltyInstitute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
University of Bern · CHCentre universitaire de médecine générale et santé publique, Lausanne · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It has been hypothesized that both genetics and diet influence the composition of the human cecal microbiota. However, it remains unclear whether and how occupational exposure to microbes impacts the microbial communities in human guts. Using a One Health approach, we visited pig farms (n = 26) and collected stool specimens from pig workers (n = 59), pig barn air samples (n = 19), and rectal swabs from pigs at three different growth stages (n = 144). Stool samples from cattle workers were included as a control group (n = 22). Each sample's microbiota was characterized using 16S rRNA gene sequencing and the DADA2 pipeline.We obtained a significantly different clustering of the microbial compositions of pig and cattle workers by permutational multivariate analysis of variance (PERMANOVA;

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Gastrointestinal MicrobiomeAirAir MicrobiologyAnimalsBacteriaCattleFarmersFarmsFecesGastrointestinal TractHumansOccupational ExposureProspective StudiesRectumSwinebioaerosolhuman stoolmicrobial communitiesOccupational exposureone healthpigpig farming

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PMID34060426
PMCPMC8172160
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