Environmental shaping of the bacterial and fungal community in infant bed dust and correlations with the airway microbiota

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From early life, children are exposed to a multitude of environmental exposures, which may be of crucial importance for healthy development. Here, the environmental microbiota may be of particular interest as it represents the interface between environmental factors and the child. As infants in modern societies spend a considerable amount of time indoors, we hypothesize that the indoor bed dust microbiota might be an important factor for the child and for the early colonization of the airway microbiome. To explore this hypothesis, we analyzed the influence of environmental exposures on 577 dust samples from the beds of infants together with 542 airway samples from the Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood2010 cohort.
Original languageEnglish
Article number115
JournalMicrobiome
Volume8
Number of pages16
ISSN2049-2618
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020

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