TY - JOUR
T1 - Pig-2-Bac as a biomarker of occupational exposure to pigs and livestock-associated Staphylococcus aureus among industrial hog operation workers
AU - Pisanic, Nora
AU - Nadimpalli, Maya
AU - Rinsky, Jessica L.
AU - Stewart, Jill
AU - Wing, Steve
AU - Love, David C.
AU - Hall, Devon
AU - Heaney, Christopher D.
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding for this study was provided by the Johns Hopkins National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety (NIOSH) Education and Research Center ( T42OH008428 ), the North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health and Education and Research Center ( T42OH00867302 ), NIOSH Grant 1K01OH010193-01A1 , a directed research award from the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, and NSF Grant 1316318 as part of the joint NSF-NIH-USDA Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases program. NP was supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) award no. 5T32ES007141-30 . JLR was supported by NIEHS award no. T32ES007018 and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health award no. T42OH00867302 . MN was supported by a Royster Society fellowship and an EPA Science to Achieve Results fellowship. CDH was supported by NIOSH grant 1K01OH010193-01A1 . This study was approved by the UNC Public Health Nursing Institutional Review Board (IRB no. 12–0712).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2015/11/1
Y1 - 2015/11/1
N2 - Over 50 million hogs are raised annually in the United States for consumption, mostly on industrial hog operations (IHOs). Workers at IHOs are exposed to airborne particulates, zoonotic pathogens, and other workplace hazards, but lack of access to IHOs can hinder exposure assessment in epidemiologic studies. Here, we demonstrate the utility of pig-specific Bacteroidales (Pig-2-Bac) as a biomarker of exposure to pigs and pig waste and to help identify sources of Staphylococcus aureus carriage among IHO workers.
AB - Over 50 million hogs are raised annually in the United States for consumption, mostly on industrial hog operations (IHOs). Workers at IHOs are exposed to airborne particulates, zoonotic pathogens, and other workplace hazards, but lack of access to IHOs can hinder exposure assessment in epidemiologic studies. Here, we demonstrate the utility of pig-specific Bacteroidales (Pig-2-Bac) as a biomarker of exposure to pigs and pig waste and to help identify sources of Staphylococcus aureus carriage among IHO workers.
KW - Industrial hog operation
KW - Livestock-associated Staphylococcus aureus
KW - Occupational exposure
KW - Pig-specific fecal Bacteroidales
KW - Quantitative polymerase chain reaction
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U2 - 10.1016/j.envres.2015.09.026
DO - 10.1016/j.envres.2015.09.026
M3 - Article
C2 - 26454792
AN - SCOPUS:84944031991
SN - 0013-9351
VL - 143
SP - 93
EP - 97
JO - Environmental research
JF - Environmental research
ER -