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| Title |
The first microbial environment of infants born by C-section: the operating room microbes
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| Published in |
Microbiome, December 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s40168-015-0126-1 |
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| Authors |
Hakdong Shin, Zhiheng Pei, Keith A. Martinez, Juana I. Rivera-Vinas, Keimari Mendez, Humberto Cavallin, Maria G. Dominguez-Bello |
| Abstract |
Newborns delivered by C-section acquire human skin microbes just after birth, but the sources remain unknown. We hypothesized that the operating room (OR) environment contains human skin bacteria that could be seeding C-section born infants. To test this hypothesis, we sampled 11 sites in four operating rooms from three hospitals in two cities. Following a C-section procedure, we swabbed OR floors, walls, ventilation grids, armrests, and lamps. We sequenced the V4 region of the 16S rRNA gene of 44 samples using Illumina MiSeq platform. Sequences were analyzed using the QIIME pipeline. Only 68 % of the samples (30/44, >1000 sequences per site) yielded sufficient DNA reads to be analyzed. The bacterial content of OR dust corresponded to human skin bacteria, with dominance of Staphylococcus and Corynebacterium. Diversity of bacteria was the highest in the ventilation grids and walls but was also present on top of the surgery lamps. Beta diversity analyses showed OR dust bacterial content clustering first by city and then by hospital (t test using unweighted UniFrac distances, p < 0.05). We conclude that the dust from ORs, collected right after a C-section procedure, contains deposits of human skin bacteria. The OR microbiota is the first environment for C-section newborns, and OR microbes might be seeding the microbiome in these babies. Further studies are required to identify how this OR microbiome exposure contributes to the seeding of the neonatal microbiome. The results might be relevant to infant health, if the current increase in risk of immune and metabolic diseases in industrialized societies is related to lack of natural exposure to the vaginal microbiome during labor and birth. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 26 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 19% |
| Cameroon | 1 | 4% |
| Italy | 1 | 4% |
| Belize | 1 | 4% |
| Mexico | 1 | 4% |
| Spain | 1 | 4% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 4% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 13 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 19 | 73% |
| Scientists | 3 | 12% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 8% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 8% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 210 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 1% |
| Tanzania, United Republic of | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Egypt | 1 | <1% |
| Croatia | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 202 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 40 | 19% |
| Researcher | 33 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 33 | 16% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 16 | 8% |
| Student > Bachelor | 16 | 8% |
| Other | 33 | 16% |
| Unknown | 39 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 44 | 21% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 38 | 18% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 22 | 10% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 18 | 9% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 11 | 5% |
| Other | 30 | 14% |
| Unknown | 47 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 53. 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 17 May 2022.
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