ReviewEnvironmental health : a global access science source2008
The coastal environment and human health: microbial indicators, pathogens, sentinels and reservoirs.
Review in Environmental health : a global access science source, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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61 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 298 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Reveal your microbes, and i'll reveal your origins: geographical traceability via Scomber colias intestinal tract metagenomics.Animal microbiome · 2025Article
- Climate change will amplify the impacts of harmful microorganisms in aquatic ecosystems.Nature microbiology · 2025Review
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- Water filtration by endobenthic sandprawns enhances resilience against eutrophication under experimental global change conditions.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Biogeographic Patterns and Community Assembly Processes of Bacterioplankton and Potential Pathogens in Subtropical Estuaries in China.Microbiology spectrum · 2023Article
- Prevalence and Antimicrobial Resistance of Bacterial Foodborne Pathogens Isolated from Raw Bivalve Molluscs Subjected to Consumption in Poland during a Ten-Year Period.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- First Data onPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- A Field-Deployable Insulated Isothermal PCR (iiPCR) for the Global Surveillance ofAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
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- Physicochemical characterization of monazite sand and its associated bacterial species from the beaches of southeastern Brazil.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2022Article
- Climate Change Impacts on Microbiota in Beach Sand and Water: Looking Ahead.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Coastal Microbial Communities Disrupted During the 2018 Hurricane Season in Outer Banks, North Carolina.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
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- Many Questions Remain Unanswered About the Role of Microbial Transmission in Epizootic Shell Disease in American Lobsters (Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Prevalence and Antimicrobial Resistance of Bacteria Isolated from Marine and Freshwater Fish in Tanzania.International journal of microbiology · 2022Article
- Twenty years of waterborne and related disease reports in Florida, USA.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2021Article
1 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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13 authors at 7 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Innovative research relating oceans and human health is advancing our understanding of disease-causing organisms in coastal ecosystems. Novel techniques are elucidating the loading, transport and fate of pathogens in coastal ecosystems, and identifying sources of contamination. This research is facilitating improved risk assessments for seafood consumers and those who use the oceans for recreation. A number of challenges still remain and define future directions of research and public policy. Sample processing and molecular detection techniques need to be advanced to allow rapid and specific identification of microbes of public health concern from complex environmental samples. Water quality standards need to be updated to more accurately reflect health risks and to provide managers with improved tools for decision-making. Greater discrimination of virulent versus harmless microbes is needed to identify environmental reservoirs of pathogens and factors leading to human infections. Investigations must include examination of microbial community dynamics that may be important from a human health perspective. Further research is needed to evaluate the ecology of non-enteric water-transmitted diseases. Sentinels should also be established and monitored, providing early warning of dangers to ecosystem health. Taken together, this effort will provide more reliable information about public health risks associated with beaches and seafood consumption, and how human activities can affect their exposure to disease-causing organisms from the oceans.
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