Associations between indoor microbiome exposure and allergic and non-allergic rhinitis for junior high school students in Terengganu, Malaysia

Xi Fu^1,2, Dan Norbäck³, Yanling Li^1,4,5, Yi Meng^1,4,5, Xunhua Zhu^1,4,5, Qianqian Yuan^1,4,5, Huarong Wen⁶, Aminnuddin Ma’pol⁷, Jamal Hisham Hashim⁸, Zailina Hashim⁹, Gunilla Wieslander³, Yiqun Deng^1,4,5, Yu Sun^{1,4,5 *}

¹Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Protein Function and Regulation in Agricultural Organisms, College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510642, PR China.

²School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, PR China.

³Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Dept. of Medical Science, University Hospital, Uppsala University, 75237 Uppsala, Sweden.

⁴Key Laboratory of Zoonosis of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510642, PR China.

⁵Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510642, China.

⁶Baling Health Center, Dangyang, Hubei, 444100, PR China

⁷Gombak District Health Office, Ministry of Health, Batu Caves, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia

⁸Universiti Selangor, Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia.

⁹Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.

*To whom corresponds should be addressed: Yu Sun