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Tischer, C.* ; Täubel, M.* ; Karvonen, A.M.* ; Jayaprakash, B.* ; Herberth, G.* ; Standl, M. ; Heinrich, J. ; Pekkanen, J.* ; Kirjavainen, P.V.*

Farm home-like indoor microbiota protects form asthma in urban homes.

In: (17th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate, INDOOR AIR 2022). 2022. (17th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate, INDOOR AIR 2022)
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Inspired by the known beneficial effects of growing up on a farm on asthma and allergies, we sought to investigate, whether asthma protection by such features would also hold true in urbanized environments. In fact, applying the Farm home Resembling Microbiota (FaRM) index - developed based on bacterial taxa composition typical to that in farm homes, was found protective from asthma also in an urban environment in Germany, however with some heterogeneity in the results between Eastern and Western Germany.
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Publication type Article: Conference contribution
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Keywords Asthma ; Bacterial Diversity ; Fungal Diversity ; Indoor Microbiota ; Urban Homes
Conference Title 17th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate, INDOOR AIR 2022
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Institute(s) Institute of Epidemiology (EPI)