{"id":680,"date":"2007-02-20T11:32:42","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T09:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/02\/20\/something-in-the-air\/"},"modified":"2013-11-19T14:50:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T12:50:32","slug":"something-in-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/02\/something-in-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Something in the air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New studies further question the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clinicalmolecularallergy.com\/content\/3\/1\/7\">hygiene hypothesis<\/a> of allergy induction. One study shows that a household <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackwell-synergy.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1111\/j.1399-3038.2006.00487.x\">bacterial elimination strategy<\/a> does not lead to more &#8212; it even leads to less asthma.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nChildren living in a house regularly cleaned with bleach were less likely to have asthma (OR, 0.10; CI, 0.02-0.51), eczema (OR, 0.22; CI, 0.06-0.79) and of being sensitized to indoor aeroallergens (OR, 0.53; CI, 0.27-1.02)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another study, by designing a 16S rRNA chip, examined a snapshot of urban air in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov\/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&#038;pubmedid=17182744\">San Antonio<\/a> &#8212; the aerosol harbored at least 1,800 diverse bacterial types<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\na richness approaching that of some soil bacterial communities\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You probably know the joke that before taking a deep breath think where the air has been before&#8230; <\/p>\n<h3>Addendum<\/h3>\n<p>The ecology of human skin has now been also reported &#8211; highly diverse, well conserved but low-level interpersonal consensus: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/104\/8\/2927\">scienceblog:doi:10.1073\/pnas.0607077104<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 12.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New studies further question the hygiene hypothesis of allergy induction. One study shows that a household bacterial elimination strategy does not lead to more &#8212; it even leads to less asthma. Children living in a house regularly cleaned with bleach were less likely to have asthma (OR, 0.10; CI, 0.02-0.51), eczema (OR, 0.22; CI, 0.06-0.79) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/02\/something-in-the-air\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Something in the air<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[2948,40],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asthma-allergy","category-joke-fun","tag-asthma-allergy","tag-fun-nothing-else"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6449,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/6449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}