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We acknowledge the support by NSF CMMI grant 1901754 “RAPID: Characterization of Pathogens in Water, Soil and Animal Facilities for Resilience Assessment of Civil Infrastructure After Extreme Weather Events,” USDA 2019- 67030-29683, Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center (CBC), and grants from CEE and IGB at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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GeoHealth
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-2021
Subjects
Floods -- North Carolina -- Environmental aspects, Hurricane Florence (2018) -- Environemntal aspects, Water -- Composition -- Testing, Salmonella enterica, Drug resistance in microorganisms
Abstract
The frequency and magnitude of extreme events are increasing globally (Arnell & Gosling, 2016). Inundation, as a result of massive flooding, has the potential to change environmental conditions abruptly, and as a result, add pressure to the metabolism and proliferation of microorganisms (Furtak et al., 2020). The resulting overland flows and additional burden from domestic sewer and septic tank systems during an extreme flood event can introduce pathogens into ecologically unstable water bodies. For example, Yu et al. (2018) reported elevated levels of Escherichia coli and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in river water samples 6 months after flooding in Houston, TX. Rural counties in the United States also experience devastating effects of floods, including effects on agriculture and livestock production. These include loss of livestock, supply chain disruption, and the risk of contamination of the facilities housing agricultural animals (Bissett et al., 2018). Microbial contamination after a flood event needs to be investigated because floods may spread infectious diseases not only to livestock but also to humans as they interact with flooded waters.
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DOI
10.1029/2020GH000294
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https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/35268
Citation Details
Mao, Y., Zeineldin, M., Usmani, M., Uprety, S., Shisler, J. L., Jutla, A., et al. (2021). Distribution and antibiotic resistance profiles of Salmonella enterica in rural areas of North Carolina after Hurricane Florence in 2018. GeoHealth, 5, e2020GH000294. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GH000294
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Originally appeared in GeoHealth, volume 5, issue 2, February 2021. Published by John Wiley & Sons for the American Geophysical Union.