Carr, T. F., Beamer, P. I., Rothers, J., Stern, D. A., Gerald, L. B., Rosales, C. B., Van Horne, Y. O., Pivniouk, O. N., Vercelli, D., Halonen, M., Gameros, M., Martinez, F. D., & Wright, A. L. (2017). Prevalence of Asthma in School Children on the Arizona-Sonora Border. The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice, 5(1), 114-120.e2.
BIO5 Collaborators
Paloma Beamer, Fernando Martinez
Mexican-born children living in the United States have a lower prevalence of asthma than other US children. Although children of Mexican descent near the Arizona (AZ)-Sonora border are genetically similar, differences in environmental exposures might result in differences in asthma prevalence across this region.
Tsou, M., Ozkaynak, H., Beamer, P., Dang, W., Hsi, H., Jiang, C., & Chien, L. (2014). Mouthing activity data for children aged 7 to 35 months in Taiwan. Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology.
Young children's mouthing activities thought to be among the most important exposure pathways. Unfortunately, mouthing activity studies have only been conducted in a few countries. In the current study, we used videotaping and computer-based translating method to obtain mouthing activity data for 66 children aged 7-35 months in Taiwan. The median indoor hand-to-mouth and object-to-mouth frequencies were 8.91 and 11.39 contacts/h, respectively. The median indoor hand-to-mouth and object-to-mouth hourly contact durations were 0.34 and 0.46 min/h, respectively. The indoor object-to-mouth activities were significantly and negatively correlated with age. Children aged 12 to
Beamer, P. -., Plotkin, K. R., Gerba, C. P., Sifuentes, L. Y., Koenig, D. W., & Reynolds, K. A. (2015). Modeling of Human Viruses on Hands and Risk of Infection in an Office Workplace using Micro-Activity Data. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, 12(4), 266-275.
Lothrop, N. Z., Wilkinson, S. T., Verhougstraete, M., Sugeng, A., Loh, M. M., Klimecki, W., & Beamer, P. I. (2015). Home Water Treatment Habits and Effectiveness in a Rural Arizona Community. Water, 7(3), 1217-1231.
BIO5 Collaborators
Paloma Beamer, Walter Klimecki
Beamer, P. -., Sugeng, A. J., Kelly, M. D., Lothrop, N., Klimecki, W. -., Wilkinson, S. T., & Loh, M. M. (2014). Use of dust fall filters as passive samplers for metal concentrations in air for communities near contaminated mine tailings. Environmental Science Processes and Impacts, 16(6), 1157-1536.
BIO5 Collaborators
Paloma Beamer, Walter Klimecki