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SUBMITTER: Kates AE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6413945 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kates Ashley E AE Dalman Mark M Torner James C JC Smith Tara C TC
PloS one 20190312 3
Little information exists on the microbiomes of livestock workers. A cross-sectional, epidemiological study was conducted enrolling 59 participants (26 of which had livestock contact) in Iowa. Participants were enrolled in one of four ways: from an existing prospective cohort study (n = 38), from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources Animal Feeding Operations database (n = 17), through Iowa county fairs (n = 3), and through snowball sampling (n = 1). We collected swabs from the nares and orop ...[more]