Campaign-Based Citizen Science for Environmental Mycology: The Science Solstice and Summer Soil-Stice Projects to Assess Drug Resistance in Air- and Soil-Borne Aspergillus fumigatus
Campaign-Based Citizen Science for Environmental Mycology: The Science Solstice and Summer Soil-Stice Projects to Assess Drug Resistance in Air- and Soil-Borne Aspergillus fumigatus
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基于运动的环境真菌学公民科学：科学至日和夏季土壤试验项目，评估空气和土壤传播的烟曲霉的耐药性
DOI：
10.5334/cstp.325
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
A. Singer
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作者：
Jennifer M. G. Shelton;M. Fisher;A. Singer
公民科学项目通常是为了生态和环境研究目的而开展的，但也有很大的潜力用于微生物学研究，以跟踪环境中病原体的出现和传播。Science Solstice和Summer Soil-stice是真菌学公民科学项目，旨在分别在英国收集空气和土壤样本，用于培养烟曲霉真菌孢子并确定其耐药性。A.烟曲霉在环境中作为植物材料的分解者起着重要作用，但也是人类肺部病原体。耐药孢子感染可能导致患者的临床结局更差。在2018年6月至2019年3月期间的四个至日和春分日，志愿者被要求从家中和工作场所收集空气样本，并将其装在免费邮政信封（仅限英国）中返回我们的实验室，或者如果从国外返回样本，则可报销邮资。英国。在2019年6月至日，英国志愿者的花园和/或堆肥被要求提供额外一轮样本。总共有787名志愿者返回了2,132个空气样本和509个土壤样本，总共生长了7,991个A。烟曲霉菌落。这项研究的估计总成本为2,650英镑，相当于每只A. 33英镑。烟曲霉菌落生长。将公民科学应用于耐药甲型H1N1流感的环境监测。烟曲霉允许在同一天在整个英国同时收集数百个环境样本。如果没有公众的参与，这项研究产生的见解将是不切实际的，公众的参与为提出以前无法提出的科学问题提供了机会。
Citizen science projects are often undertaken for ecological and environmental research purposes but also have great potential for use in microbiology research to track the emergence and spread of pathogens in the environment. Science Solstice and Summer Soil-stice are mycology citizen science projects aimed at collecting air and soil samples, respectively, in the United Kingdom (UK), that will be used to culture Aspergillus fumigatus fungal spores and to determine their drug resistance. A. fumigatus plays an important role in the environment as a decomposer of plant material, but is also a human lung pathogen. Infection with drug-resistant spores can lead to a worse clinical outcome for the patient. On the four solstice and equinox days between June 2018 and March 2019, volunteers were asked to collect air samples from their homes and workplaces and return them to our lab in Freepost envelopes (UK only) or were reimbursed for postage if returning samples from outside of the UK. An additional round of samples was requested from UK volunteers’ gardens and/or compost on the June 2019 solstice. In total, 787 volunteers returned 2,132 air samples and 509 soil samples, which grew a total of 7,991 A. fumigatus colonies. The estimated total cost of the study was £2,650, the equivalent of £0.33 per A. fumigatus colony grown. Incorporating citizen science into the environmental surveillance of drug-resistant A. fumigatus allowed for the simultaneous collection of hundreds of environmental samples across the entire UK on the same day. The insights generated from this study would not be practical in the absence of public participation, which offers opportunities to ask scientific questions that were previously un-askable.