ArticleNPJ biofilms and microbiomes2018
Ugly ducklings-the dark side of plastic materials in contact with potable water.
Article in NPJ biofilms and microbiomes, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 37 citations in OpenAlex.
- Microbial extracellular polymeric substances in the environment, technology and medicine.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2025Review
- The unique chemical and microbiological signatures of an array of bottled drinking water.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Enhancing the DNA yield intended for microbial sequencing from a low-biomass chlorinated drinking water.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Emissions of Fungal Volatile Organic Compounds in Residential Environments and Temporal Emission Patterns: Implications for Sampling Methods.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Biofilms in Water Hoses of a Meat Processing Environment Harbor Complex Microbial Communities.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Microplastics accumulate fungal pathogens in terrestrial ecosystems.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Fungi in aquatic ecosystems.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2019Review
- Resource or waste? A perspective of plastics degradation in soil with a focus on end-of-life options.Heliyon · 2018Review
- Critical Assessment of Methods to Quantify Biofilm Growth and Evaluate Antibiofilm Activity of Host Defence Peptides.Biomolecules · 2018Article
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Bath toys pose an interesting link between flexible plastic materials, potable water, external microbial and nutrient contamination, and potentially vulnerable end-users. Here, we characterized biofilm communities inside 19 bath toys used under real conditions. In addition, some determinants for biofilm formation were assessed, using six identical bath toys under controlled conditions with either clean water prior to bathing or dirty water after bathing. All examined bath toys revealed notable biofilms on their inner surface, with average total bacterial numbers of 5.5 × 10
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