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Occupational exposure to inhalable pathogenic microorganisms in waste sorting
This study assessed microorganisms in personal inhalable work air samples aiming to identify potential human pathogens, and correlate exposure to adverse health outcomes in waste workers. Full-shift personal exposure was measured in six different waste sorting plants. Microbial concentrations in inhalable air samples were analysed using MALDI-TOF MS for cultivable, and next generation sequencing (NGS) for non-cultivable microorganisms. Concentrations of bacterial and fungal CFUs varied substantially within and between waste sorting plants, ranging from no identifiable organisms to a maximum concentration in the order of 10...
Source: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental health - August 26, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Elke Eriksen Anne Mette Madsen Anani Komlavi Afanou Anne Straumfors Alexander Eiler P ål Graff Source Type: research

Performance of bacterial and mitochondrial qPCR source tracking methods: A European multi-center study
Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2023 Aug 21;253:114241. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2023.114241. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWith the advent of molecular biology diagnostics, different quantitative PCR assays have been developed for use in Source Tracking (ST), with none of them showing 100% specificity and sensitivity. Most studies have been conducted at a regional level and mainly in fecal slurry rather than in animal wastewater. The use of a single molecular assay has most often proven to fall short in discriminating with precision the sources of fecal contamination. This work is a multicenter European ST study to compare bacteria...
Source: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental health - August 23, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: S ílvia Monteiro Bernardino Machado-Moreira Rita Linke Anicet R Blanch Elisenda Ballest é Javier M éndez Leena Maunula Satu Oristo Claudia Stange Andreas Tiehm Andreas H Farnleitner Ricardo Santos Cristina Garc ía-Aljaro Source Type: research

A revised concept for deriving reference values for internal exposures to chemical substances and its application to population-representative biomonitoring data in German children and adolescents 2014-2017 (GerES V)
Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2023 Aug 12;253:114236. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2023.114236. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTHBM reference values, in contrast to toxicologically derived values, are statistically derived values that provide information on the exposure of the population. The exceedance frequency (if applicable for individual population groups) is often a first assessment standard for the local exposure situation for municipalities. More than 25 years have passed since the German Human Biomonitoring Commission (HBMC) formulated the first recommendations for the derivation of population-based reference values (HBM refere...
Source: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental health - August 14, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Michael Hoopmann Aline Murawski Michael Sch ümann Thomas G öen Petra Apel Nina Vogel Marike Kolossa-Gehring Claudia R öhl Human Biomonitoring Commission of the German Environment Agency Source Type: research

Does exposure to nature make children more intelligent? Analysis in Polish children with and without ADHD
We examined whether there is an association between lifelong exposure to greenspace and bluespace and intelligence in children aged 10-13 with and without attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and whether PA mediates this association. The sample (N = 714) was collected within the NeuroSmog case-control study, where children with (N = 206) and without ADHD (N = 508) were recruited from 18 towns in Southern Poland. Nature exposure was estimated as the sum of the z-scores of the objective and perceived measures. Objective greenspace exposure was defined as the percentage of grass and tree cover in 500 m and 1 km bu...
Source: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental health - August 10, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Dorota Buczy łowska Clemens Baumbach Jakub Bratkowski Yarema Mysak Maja Wierzba- Łukaszyk Krzysztof Skotak Katarzyna Sitnik-Warchulska Ma łgorzata Lipowska Bernadetta Izydorczyk Marcin Szwed Iana Markevych Source Type: research