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Population Screening Using Sewage Reveals Pan-Resistant Bacteria in Hospital and Community Samples.

PLoS ONE, 2016
The presence of pan-resistant bacteria worldwide possesses a threat to global health. It is difficult to evaluate the extent of carriage of resistant bacteria in the population. Sewage sampling is a possible way to monitor populations.
Lital Meir-Gruber, Yossi Manor, Shiraz Gefen-Halevi, Musa Y Hindiyeh, Fernando Mileguir, Roberto Azar, Gill Smollan, Natasha Belausov, Galia Rahav, Ari Shamiss, Ella Mendelson, Nathan Keller   +11 more
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The 5T Paradox of Triclosan: From Toiletries to Toxic Trash, a Growing Threat to Humanity

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Triclosan (TCS) persists as a contaminant of concern in the Anthropocene, despite regulatory actions. Environmental dissemination continues through wastewater effluents, biosolid application, and improper disposal practices. This narrative review synthesizes current evidence regarding triclosan's environmental fate, transformation pathways ...
Temitope Aribigbola, Mauro Ricardo Souza da Luz, Sunday Amos Onikanni, Marjorie Dardis Murucci, Oluwatosin Stella Olayinka, Rodrigo Soares Fortunato, Rômulo Sperduto Dezonne, Omolola Esther Amos, Sara Gemini Piperni, Denise Pires de Carvalho, Leandro Miranda‐Alves   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Local Leaflets: Constituency Issue Messaging at the 2024 General Election

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 111-119, January/March 2025.
Abstract The 2024 general election brought about a significant change in the parliamentary balance of power. There has already been much attention devoted to the issues that dominated the national campaign. Using original leaflet data from the OpenElections project, this study extends the focus to explore the issues emphasised in local electoral ...
Alan Duggan, Caitlin Milazzo, Siim Trumm
wiley   +1 more source

Acinetobacter defluvii sp. nov., recovered from hospital sewage

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 2017
A Gram-stain-negative, non-motile Acinetobacter strain, WCHA30T, was isolated from hospital sewage in West China Hospital of Sichuan University in Chengdu, south-western China. Strain WCHA30T was a non-spore-forming, catalase-positive, oxidase-negative, strictly aerobic coccobacillus. The DNA G+C content was 38 mol%.
Yiyi, Hu, Yu, Feng, Xiaoxia, Zhang, Zhiyong, Zong   +3 more
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Evolutionary and Epidemiological Characterization of Multidrug‐Resistant Escherichia coli Isolated From Pangolins in China

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Malayan pangolin populations have fallen to a critically endangered level, and illegal trafficking of wild pangolins is a global problem. Little is known about antimicrobial‐resistant bacteria (MDRB) harbored by pangolins, although pangolins are frequently consumed as food or used in traditional medicine. In this study, we report for the first
Yawen Wang, Xue Wang, Jianan Zhao, Jun Zeng, Shijia Hu, Fang Ji, Guoying Dong, Hongxuan He, Chengmin Wang   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health impacts of public pawnshops in Industrialising Tokyo

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines whether expanded credit access through low‐interest small loans relaxed liquidity constraints among poor households and improved early‐life health in industrialising Tokyo. Using ward‐level panel data for 1927–1935, this study shows that public pawnshop lending was associated with 4% and 5% reductions in infant and foetal ...
Tatsuki Inoue
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Vertical Fiscal Imbalance on Gambling Policies in New South Wales, Australia: The Rise of the Poker Machine

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study traces how gambling in Australia changed from a simple form of leisure, enjoyed by all social classes in colonial times, to a billion‐dollar industry driven by political and economic imperatives. Using a case study, it links vertical fiscal imbalance (VFI), caused by changes to the state‐federal taxation structure, to the ...
Barbara Kinder, Michael B. Charles
wiley   +1 more source

Detection of SARS-CoV-2 genome in the air, surfaces, and wastewater of the referral hospitals, Gorgan, north of Iran

Iranian Journal of Microbiology, 2022
Background and Objectives: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic caused by the novel virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).
Farzad Ramezani Ziarani, Alireza Tahamtan, Hasan Safari, Alijan Tabarraei, Yousef Dadban Shahamat   +4 more
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The Relational Character of Canadian Nation‐Building Infrastructure in the 21st Century

Canadian Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Infrastructure development is central to Canada's nation‐building process. This article argues that the federal government has recalibrated its nation‐building mandate from unilateral state command to relational orchestration. Through thematic analysis of thirty‐eight policy documents related to three federal infrastructure plans (2007–2016 ...
Alaz Munzur, Katharina Koch
wiley   +1 more source

The microbiome, resistome, and their co-evolution in sewage at a hospital for infectious diseases in Shanghai, China

Microbiology Spectrum
The emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) caused by the overuse of antibiotics severely threatens human health. Hospital sewage may be a key transmission hub for ARB.
Yingying Ma, Nannan Wu, Tao Zhang, Yanpeng Li, Le Cao, Peng Zhang, Zhigang Zhang, Tongyu Zhu, Chiyu Zhang   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source