ReviewmBio2022
Disaster Microbiology-a New Field of Study.
Review in mBio, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
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Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Neonatal Fungemia by Non-Candida Rare Opportunistic Yeasts: A Systematic Review of Literature.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Pooled it
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- Fungal proliferation before and after the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction in North America.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- One Health, One Microbiome.Microbiome · 2025Review
- An interdisciplinary perspective of the built-environment microbiome.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2025Review
- Environmental fungi from cool and warm neighborhoods in the heat island of Baltimore City show differences in thermal susceptibility and pigmentation.ISME communications · 2025Article
- Climate Change Impacts on Environmental Fungi: Human Health and Fungal Disease.Current topics in microbiology and immunology · 2025Review
- Flood-associated disease outbreaks and transmission in Southeast Asia.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Review
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- Autoimmune Diseases Following Environmental Disasters: A Narrative Review of the Literature.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Microbes and the water nexus.Nature microbiology · 2024Article
- One Earth: The Equilibrium between the Human and the Bacterial Worlds.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Fungal infections: A growing threatBiomedica : revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud · 2023Article
- Disaster mycologyBiomedica : revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud · 2023Article
- Modes-of-action of antifungal compounds: Stressors and (target-site-specific) toxins, toxicants, or toxin-stressors.Microbial biotechnology · 2023Review
- WasmBio · 2023Review
- Impact of wars and natural disasters on emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases.Frontiers in public health · 2023Review
- The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics · 2022Article
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Abstract
Natural and human-made disasters can cause tremendous physical damage, societal change, and suffering. In addition to their effects on people, disasters have been shown to alter the microbial population in the area affected. Alterations for microbial populations can lead to new ecological interactions, with additional potentially adverse consequences for many species, including humans. Disaster-related stressors can be powerful forces for microbial selection. Studying microbial adaptation in disaster sites can reveal new biological processes, including mechanisms by which some microbes could become pathogenic and others could become beneficial (e.g., used for bioremediation). Here we survey examples of how disasters have affected microbiology and suggest that the topic of "disaster microbiology" is itself a new field of study. Given the accelerating pace of human-caused climate change and the increasing encroachment of the natural word by human activities, it is likely that this area of research will become increasingly relevant to the broader field of microbiology. Since disaster microbiology is a broad term open to interpretation, we propose criteria for what phenomena fall under its scope. The basic premise is that there must be a disaster that causes a change in the environment, which then causes an alteration to microbes (either a physical or biological adaptation), and that this adaptation must have additional ramifications.
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