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Catching the Mardi Gras fever: Quantifying the impact of mass gathering tourism on local bacterial prevalence and community diversity in municipal wastewater.
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We employed 16S metagenomic analysis to measure the impact of Mardi Gras tourism on the bacterial ecology found in New Orleans' municipal wastewater. Throughout the peak of the 2023 Carnivale season, species turnover was significantly higher in New Orleans than it was in our control site. Alpha diversity metrics peaked 2-to-3 weeks after Mardi Gras Day, increasing between 65% and 1967% over Carnivale. We also found that human pathogens and microbiota had significantly stronger, more positive correlations with the rise in Mardi Gras tourism than did environmental control species. These changes in wastewater abundance for two species -
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