Water- and Foodborne Pathogens in Agricultural and Urban Aquatic Ecosystems
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water and One Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2018)
Special Issue Editors
Interests: applied and environmental microbiology; microbial source tracking (MST); emerging water- and foodborne pathogens; quantitative real-time PCR; DNA sequencing; genotyping and antibiotic resistance profiling
Interests: emerging pathogens; method development; bacterial taxonomic classification; molecular microbiology; food safety
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With intensification of agricultre and urban development, our surface- and groundwater are becoming more vulnerable to water- and foodborne human and animal-associated pathogen contamination, stemming from various point and non-point sources of fecal pollution that can contribute to disease outbreaks, economic losses in livestock, contamination of irrigated fresh produce, and diseases in wildlife. Earlier studies focused on a specific group of pathogens that cause diseases, such as gastroentritis. However, there is now a paradigm shift in research, focusing on many emerging pathogens and their community dynamics that cause respiratory, dermal, and toxigenic effects. Assessing the water quality by monitoring the levels of microbial indicators, such as fecal coliforms and E. coli, is a common approach for quantifying the potential pathogen loads in various water sources. However, they may not represent the most suitable indicators for predicting the presence of pathogens. Several efforts have examined transmission-exposure routes and developed mitigation strategies to reduce the load of pathogens and improve water quality to protect and their associated potential risks posed to human and animal health. Recently, the state-of-science has advanced immensely, and will continue to evolve in the years to come. Recent developments in molecular techniques including quantitative PCR, the availability of nucleic acid sequences that are informative with respect to identity, function or gene expression, and high resolution metagenomic inventories, have greatly transformed that help in identifying emerging pathogens. Therefore, a Special Issue of Water is being launched where researches are requested to submit their research and review articles relating to the broad spectrum of “Water- and Foodborne Pathogens in Agriculture and Urban Aquatic Ecosystems”. Papers on prevalence, emerging pathogens, methods and quantitative analysis, pathogenicity, antibiotic resistance, microbial risk assessment are invited. We look forward to receiving and publishing your state-of-the-art research contributions for this issue.
Dr. Izhar Khan
Dr. Amir Abdulmawjood
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Quantitative microbial risk assessment
- Microbial source tracking
- Microbial water quality
- Bacteria
- Protozoa
- Viruses
- Free living amoeba
- Rapidly growing nontuberculous mycobacteria
- Cyanobacteria and toxins
- Advance molecular methods
- Metagenomics
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