The microbial ecology of Escherichia coli in the vertebrate gut

E Foster-Nyarko, MJ Pallen - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Escherichia coli has a rich history as biology's 'rock star', driving advances across many
fields. In the wild, E. coli resides innocuously in the gut of humans and animals but is also a …

Surface water quality, public health, and ecological risks in Bangladesh—a systematic review and meta-analysis over the last two decades

H Bilal, X Li, MS Iqbal, Y Mu, RXS Tulcan… - … Science and Pollution …, 2023 - Springer
Water quality has recently emerged as one of the utmost severe ecological problems being
faced by the develo** countries all over the world, and Bangladesh is no exception. Both …

Impact of plastic particles on the horizontal transfer of antibiotic resistance genes to bacterium: dependent on particle sizes and antibiotic resistance gene vector …

X Hu, MG Waigi, B Yang, Y Gao - Environmental science & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Plastic particles impact the propagation of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in
environmental media, and their perturbation on the horizontal gene transfer (HGT) of ARGs …

Causes and incidence of community-acquired serious infections among young children in south Asia (ANISA): an observational cohort study

SK Saha, SJ Schrag, S El Arifeen, LC Mullany… - The Lancet, 2018 - thelancet.com
Background More than 500 000 neonatal deaths per year result from possible serious
bacterial infections (pSBIs), but the causes are largely unknown. We investigated the …

Association of nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene practices with children's nutritional status, intestinal parasitic infections and diarrhoea in rural Nepal: a cross …

A Shrestha, J Six, D Dahal, S Marks, R Meierhofer - BMC public health, 2020 - Springer
Background Providing universal access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in
remote Nepal remains challenging. We investigated WASH conditions and their association …

Farm animals and aquaculture: significant reservoirs of mobile colistin resistance genes

Y Shen, R Zhang, S Schwarz, C Wu… - Environmental …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Colistin resistance has attracted substantial attention after colistin was considered as a last‐
resort drug for the treatment of infections caused by carbapenem‐resistant and/or multidrug …

Human fecal contamination of water, soil, and surfaces in households sharing poor-quality sanitation facilities in Maputo, Mozambique

DA Holcomb, J Knee, T Sumner, Z Adriano… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Identifying the origin of fecal contamination can support more effective interventions to
interrupt enteric pathogen transmission. Microbial source tracking (MST) assays may help to …

[HTML][HTML] Monitoring the effect of pH on the growth of pathogenic bacteria using electrical impedance spectroscopy

N Razmi, M Lazouskaya, I Pajcin, B Petrovic… - Results in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract pH value is a significant environmental factor controlling the bacterial growth,
activity and affecting their metabolic properties. In the present study, the effect of the different …

Fecal indicator bacteria along multiple environmental exposure pathways (water, food, and soil) and intestinal parasites among children in the rural northwest Ethiopia

Z Gizaw, AW Yalew, BD Bitew, J Lee, M Bisesi - BMC gastroenterology, 2022 - Springer
Background Children in low-resource settings are exposed to multiple risk factors for
enteropathogens. However, the probability of exposures may be different across exposure …

Dependency of sanitation infrastructure on the discharge of faecal coliform and SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA in wastewater from COVID and non-COVID hospitals in Dhaka …

N Amin, R Haque, MZ Rahman, MZ Rahman… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
The detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) RNA in
wastewater can be used as an indicator of the presence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in specific …