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ArticleThe Science of the total environment2025

Swine production intensity and swine-specific fecal contamination of household surfaces at residences of industrial livestock operation workers and community residents, North Carolina, USA.

Kathleen M Kurowski, Nora Pisanic, Kristoffer Spicer, Kate Kruczynski, Carolyn Gigot, Devon J Hall, Devon J Hall, Kyle T Aune, Bonita Salmerón, Ana M Rule and 1 more

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Article in The Science of the total environment, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

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11 authors.

Kathleen M KurowskiDepartment of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA; Community Science and Innovation for Environmental Justice Initiative, Center for a Livable Future, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Nora PisanicDepartment of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA; Community Science and Innovation for Environmental Justice Initiative, Center for a Livable Future, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Kristoffer SpicerDepartment of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA; Community Science and Innovation for Environmental Justice Initiative, Center for a Livable Future, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Kate KruczynskiDepartment of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Carolyn GigotDepartment of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA; Community Science and Innovation for Environmental Justice Initiative, Center for a Livable Future, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Devon J HallRural Empowerment Association for Community Help, Warsaw, NC, USA.
Devon J HallRural Empowerment Association for Community Help, Warsaw, NC, USA.
Kyle T AuneDepartment of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Bonita SalmerónDepartment of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA; Community Science and Innovation for Environmental Justice Initiative, Center for a Livable Future, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Ana M RuleDepartment of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Christopher D HeaneyDepartment of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA; Community Science and Innovation for Environmental Justice Initiative, Center for a Livable Future, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA; Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA; Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: cheaney1@jhu.edu.

Funding

Pilot Project ProgramP30ES032756 · NIEHS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Marsha Wills-Karp · 2022 to 2026
$6.0M
Arsenic and immune response to influenza vaccination in pregnant women and newbornsR01ES026973 · NIEHS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI HEANEY, CHRISTOPHER D, LABRIQUE, ALAIN BERNARD · 2017 to 2021
$3.6M
Multiplex oral fluid antibody assay for arbovirus diagnosis, surveillance and preventionR21AI139784 · NIAID · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI COLLINS, MATTHEW, HEANEY, CHRISTOPHER D · 2018 to 2019
$459k
NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI139784NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES032756NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES026973NIOSH CDC HHS T42 OH008428
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In North Carolina (NC), industrial livestock operations (ILOs) that produce swine concentrate fecal waste in lagoons and sprayfields, which are disproportionately located in low-income communities of color. Although swine-specific fecal contamination of surface waters proximal to swine ILOs has been documented, less is known about contamination of homes proximal to swine ILOs. Up to 6 outdoor and 6 indoor surface settled dust samples were collected from households: 1) with >= 1 ILO worker (ILO-W); 2) neighboring ILOs without occupational exposure to livestock (ILO-N); and 3) in metropolitan areas of NC (Metro). Using quantitative real-time PCR, the DNA copy number of Pig-2-Bac, a swine-specific fecal microbial source tracking (MST) marker, per square inch of household surfaces sampled was measured. We used permits of swine ILOs and steady state live weight to assign swine production intensity (SPI) exposure values to each household. We estimated associations between household group (Metro as reference), outdoor versus indoor household surface, and log

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Animal HusbandryEnvironmental ExposureEnvironmental MonitoringFecesOccupational ExposureAnimalsDustHumansLivestockNorth CarolinaSwineDustConcentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs)Environmental justiceFecal contaminationHog productionMicrobial source trackingPig-2-BacSwine

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PMID40435729
PMCPMC13140102

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