Shotgun pyrosequencing metagenomic analyses of dusts from swine confinement and grain facilities.

Inhalation of agricultural dusts causes inflammatory reactions and symptoms such as headache, fever, and malaise, which can progress to chronic airway inflammation and associated diseases, e.g. asthma, chronic bronchitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and hypersensitivity pneumonitis. Altho...

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Main Authors: Robert J Boissy, Debra J Romberger, William A Roughead, Lisa Weissenburger-Moser, Jill A Poole, Tricia D LeVan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3991671?pdf=render