Table 5.

Microorganisms identified in aerosol samples from various livestock operations

Operation	Organisms identified	Reference
Swine barns	Alternaria, Aspergillus, Monilia, Mucor, Penicillium, Rhizopus	Scarpino and Quinn, 1998
Cattle, swine, and  poultry barns	Acinetobacter spp., Chryseomonas luteola, Citrobacter freundii, Escherichia coli, Enterobacter agglomerans, Klebsiella spp., Oligella urethralis, Moraxella spp., Pseudomonas spp., Xanthamonas maltophilia, Shewanella putrefaciens	Zucker et al., 2000
Swine barns	Actinomycetes, Alternaria, Aspergillus, Aureobasidium, Botrytis, Candida, Cephalosporium, Cladosporium, Curvularia, Diplococcus, Drechslera, Fusarium, Geotrichum, Monilia, Oidium, Paecilomyces, Penicillium, Sclerotium, Stemphyllium, Trichoderma, Ulocladium, Zygomyces	Chang et al., 2001b
Swine barns	Bacillus, Enterococcus, Lactobacillus, Listeria, Nocardia, Penicillium, Pseudomonas, Staphylococcus	Predicala et al., 2002
Cattle feedlot	Bacillus spp., Chrysobacterium sp., Corynebacterium spp., Helcococcus sp., Micrococcussp., Paenibacillus sp., Alternaria sp., Bipolaris sp., Chryosporium sp., Cladosporium sp., Penicillium sp.	Wilson et al., 2002
Cattle shed	Absidia, Alternaria, Aspergillus, Choanephora, Cladosporium, Corynespora, Curvularia, Drechslera, Ganoderma, Leptosphaeria, Memnoniella, Mucor, Nigrospora, Penicillium, Periconia, Rhizopus, Torula, Syncephalastrum	Adhikari et al., 2004
Swine concentrated  animal feeding  operations	Coliforms, Staphylococcus aureus	Green et al., 2006
Duck fattening unit	Enterobacteriaceae, Pseudomonadaceae, Vibrionaceae, Legionellaceae	Zucker et al., 2006
Swine barns	Aerococcus spp., Anaerococcus spp., Clostridium spp., Lactobacillus spp., Streptococcus spp.	Nehme et al., 2008
Poultry and duck  facilities	Salmonella	Fallschissel et al., 2009
Swine barns	Methanosphaera stadtmanae, other Methanobacteriales, and Methanosarcinales	Nehme et al., 2009