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dc.contributor.authorAbraham, Wolf-Rainer
dc.date.accessioned2011-06-03T13:43:30Z
dc.date.available2011-06-03T13:43:30Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifier.citationMegacities as sources for pathogenic bacteria in rivers and their fate downstream. 2011, 2011 Int J Microbiolen
dc.identifier.issn1687-9198
dc.identifier.pmid20885968
dc.identifier.doi10.1155/2011/798292
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10033/132541
dc.description.abstractPoor sanitation, poor treatments of waste water, as well as catastrophic floods introduce pathogenic bacteria into rivers, infecting and killing many people. The goal of clean water for everyone has to be achieved with a still growing human population and their rapid concentration in large cities, often megacities. How long introduced pathogens survive in rivers and what their niches are remain poorly known but essential to control water-borne diseases in megacities. Biofilms are often niches for various pathogens because they possess high resistances against environmental stress. They also facilitate gene transfers of antibiotic resistance genes which become an increasing health problem. Beside biofilms, amoebae are carriers of pathogenic bacteria and niches for their survival. An overview about our current understanding of the fate and niches of pathogens in rivers, the multitude of microbial community interactions, and the impact of severe flooding, a prerequisite to control pathogens in polluted rivers, is given.
dc.language.isoenen
dc.titleMegacities as sources for pathogenic bacteria in rivers and their fate downstream.en
dc.typeArticleen
dc.contributor.departmentHelmholtz Center for Infection Research, Chemical Microbiology, Inhoffenstrasse 7, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany.en
dc.identifier.journalInternational journal of microbiologyen
refterms.dateFOA2018-06-12T23:29:40Z
html.description.abstractPoor sanitation, poor treatments of waste water, as well as catastrophic floods introduce pathogenic bacteria into rivers, infecting and killing many people. The goal of clean water for everyone has to be achieved with a still growing human population and their rapid concentration in large cities, often megacities. How long introduced pathogens survive in rivers and what their niches are remain poorly known but essential to control water-borne diseases in megacities. Biofilms are often niches for various pathogens because they possess high resistances against environmental stress. They also facilitate gene transfers of antibiotic resistance genes which become an increasing health problem. Beside biofilms, amoebae are carriers of pathogenic bacteria and niches for their survival. An overview about our current understanding of the fate and niches of pathogens in rivers, the multitude of microbial community interactions, and the impact of severe flooding, a prerequisite to control pathogens in polluted rivers, is given.


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