Environmental Microbiological Contamination and Public Health
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2022) | Viewed by 5772
Special Issue Editors
Interests: waterborne pathogens; microbiological water quality; environmental microbiology analytical methods; water microbiological indicator of contamination; wastewater-based epidemiology; treated wastewater microbiological quality; airborne PM genotoxic effect
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Interests: emerging pathogens; environment; antibiotic resistance; molecular methods; water; food
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Public health and diseases are affected by many complex factors. The environment plays an important role as driver of human health, and, in particular, the microbiological component can impact on human health from various points of view. One of the aspects that cannot be ignored is certainly the role that the environment can play in human microbial pathogens’ spread: the importance of different environmental sources such as water, air, and soil in the diffusion of the pathogenic microorganism has long been known. Despite this, the continuous emergence of new microbiological problems (e.g., emerging viruses, antibiotic-resistant bacteria) underlines the need to enhance the research activity on this aspect. Moreover, recent developments in laboratory methods and knowledge in the field of microbiological risk assessment have highlighted new risk profiles and research topics.
This Special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) focuses on the current state of knowledge on the role of the environment in the spreading of human pathogenic microorganisms. New research papers, reviews, and case reports are welcome to this Issue. Other accepted manuscript types include methodological papers, position papers, brief reports, and commentaries. Potential topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Impact of environmental micro-organisms on public health;
Emerging human pathogens in environmental matrices (water, air, soil);
Environmental-related human microbial infectious diseases;
New method for human microbial pathogen detection in the environment;
New sampling and concentration methods for the detection of human microbial pathogens in environmental matrices;
Microbiological risk assessment;
New risk profiles (e.g., occupation risks, new environmental sources);
Relationship between environmental microbioma and human health;
New environmental microbial related concerns (e.g., antibiotic resistance);
Environmental contamination indicators and surrogates;
Transfer of human microbial pathogens from the environment (soil) to vegetables and fruits for human consumption.
Prof. Dr. Elisabetta Carraro
Dr. Silvia Bonetta
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- public health
- emerging microbial pathogens
- sampling and detection methods
- MRA
- QMRA
- new microbiological risk
- environmental microbioma
