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City-scale distribution and dispersal routes of mycobiome in residences

Overview of attention for article published in Microbiome, October 2017
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Title
City-scale distribution and dispersal routes of mycobiome in residences
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Microbiome, October 2017
DOI 10.1186/s40168-017-0346-7
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Xinzhao Tong, Marcus H. Y. Leung, David Wilkins, Patrick K. H. Lee

Abstract

Pathogenic and allergenic bacteria and fungi within the indoors can bring detrimental health effects on the occupants. We previously studied the bacterial communities found in households located throughout Hong Kong as well as the skin surfaces of the occupants. As a complementary study, here, we investigated the fungal communities (mycobiome) in the same residences and occupants and identified factors that are important in shaping their diversity, composition, distribution, and dispersal patterns. We observed that common skin and environmental fungal taxa dominated air, surface, and skin samples. Individual and touch frequency strongly and respectively shaped the fungal community structure on occupant skin and residential surfaces. Cross-domain analysis revealed positive correlations between bacterial and fungal community diversity and composition, especially for skin samples. SourceTracker prediction suggested that some fungi can be transferred bidirectionally between surfaces and skin sites, but bacteria showed a stronger dispersal potential. In addition, we detected a modest but significant association between indoor airborne bacterial composition and geographic distance on a city-wide scale, a pattern not observed for fungi. However, the distance-decay effects were more pronounced at shorter local scale for both communities, and airflow might play a prominent role in driving the spatial variation of the indoor airborne mycobiome. Our study suggests that occupants exert a weaker influence on surface fungal communities compared to bacterial communities, and local environmental factors, including air currents, appear to be stronger determinants of indoor airborne mycobiome than ventilation strategy, human occupancy, and room type.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 69 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 17 25%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 20%
Professor > Associate Professor 5 7%
Student > Master 5 7%
Other 3 4%
Other 6 9%
Unknown 19 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 19%
Environmental Science 7 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 9%
Engineering 5 7%
Immunology and Microbiology 3 4%
Other 7 10%
Unknown 28 41%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 May 2018.
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#2,559,724
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#1,012
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#48,055
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Outputs of similar age from Microbiome
#32
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