Extreme environments at home

By Elisabeth Bik Posted in Scholarly Literature (Journals, Books, Reports)

Posted on March 22, 2016March 14, 2017

Just a quick post on a new paper posted last week at PeerJ. As in the previous post, this is a PeerJ Preprint, meaning it is not peer-reviewed yet. Microbial diversity of extreme habitats in human homes Amy M. Savageâ€‹, Justin Hills, Katherine Driscoll, Daniel J Fergus, Amy M Grunden, Robert R Dunn PeerJ Preprints 4:e1874v1 …

Bleach and Its Association with Respiratory Infections

By Alex Alexiev Posted in Research Scholarly Literature (Journals, Books, Reports)

Posted on April 17, 2015March 14, 2017

A 2015 paper from Casas et al (unfortunately no longer open access) investigated the effect of bleach on respiratory infections in young school-children. They analyzed information from Spain, the Netherlands, and Finland. Spain had the most instance of bleach use, which corresponded with a higher respiratory and related infections. On the other end of the spectrum, Finland …