Exposures Related to House Dust Microbiota in a U.S. Farming Population.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Environmental factors can influence the house dust microbiota, which may impact health outcomes. Little is known about how farming exposures impact the indoor microbiota.

Objective

We aimed to identify exposures related to bacterial communities in house dust in a U.S. farming population.

Methods

We used 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing to characterize bacterial communities in vacuumed dust samples from the bedrooms of a subset of 879 households of farmers and farmers' spouses enrolled in the Agricultural Lung Health Study (ALHS), a case-control study of asthma nested within the Agricultural Health Study (AHS) in North Carolina and Iowa. Information on current farming (past 12 mo), including both crop and animal farming, and other potential microbial sources was

SUBMITTER: Lee MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6084882 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature