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Assessment Of Pathogens In Flood Waters In Coastal Rural Regions: Case Study After Hurricane Michael And Florence, Moiz Usmani, Sital Uprety, Nathan Bonham, Yusuf Jamal, Yuqing Mao, Daisuke Sano, Joanna Shisler, Avinash Unnikrishnan, Thanh H. Nguyen, Antarpreet Jutla
Assessment Of Pathogens In Flood Waters In Coastal Rural Regions: Case Study After Hurricane Michael And Florence, Moiz Usmani, Sital Uprety, Nathan Bonham, Yusuf Jamal, Yuqing Mao, Daisuke Sano, Joanna Shisler, Avinash Unnikrishnan, Thanh H. Nguyen, Antarpreet Jutla
Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations
The severity of hurricanes, and thus the associated impacts, is changing over time. One of the understudied threats from damage caused by hurricanes is the potential for cross-contamination of water bodies with pathogens in coastal agricultural regions. Using microbiological data collected after hurricanes Florence and Michael, this study shows a dichotomy in the presence of pathogens in coastal North Carolina and Florida. Salmonella typhimurium was abundant in water samples collected in the regions dominated by swine farms. A drastic decrease in Enterococcus spp. in Carolinas is indicative of pathogen removal with flooding waters. Except for the abundance presence of Salmonella …
Distribution And Antibiotic Resistance Profiles Of Salmonella Enterica In Rural Areas Of North Carolina After Hurricane Florence In 2018, Yuqing Mao, Mohamed Zeineldin, Moiz Usmani, Sital Uprety, Joanna Shisler, Antarpreet Jutla, Avinash Unnikrishnan, Thanh H. Nguyen
Distribution And Antibiotic Resistance Profiles Of Salmonella Enterica In Rural Areas Of North Carolina After Hurricane Florence In 2018, Yuqing Mao, Mohamed Zeineldin, Moiz Usmani, Sital Uprety, Joanna Shisler, Antarpreet Jutla, Avinash Unnikrishnan, Thanh H. Nguyen
Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations
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, …