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Disaster Microbiology-a New Field of Study.
Smith, Daniel F Q; Casadevall, Arturo.
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  • Smith DFQ; W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
  • Casadevall A; W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
mBio ; 13(4): e0168022, 2022 08 30.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35920557
ABSTRACT
Natural and human-made disasters can cause tremendous physical damage, societal change, and suffering. In addition to their effects on people, disasters have been shown to alter the microbial population in the area affected. Alterations for microbial populations can lead to new ecological interactions, with additional potentially adverse consequences for many species, including humans. Disaster-related stressors can be powerful forces for microbial selection. Studying microbial adaptation in disaster sites can reveal new biological processes, including mechanisms by which some microbes could become pathogenic and others could become beneficial (e.g., used for bioremediation). Here we survey examples of how disasters have affected microbiology and suggest that the topic of "disaster microbiology" is itself a new field of study. Given the accelerating pace of human-caused climate change and the increasing encroachment of the natural word by human activities, it is likely that this area of research will become increasingly relevant to the broader field of microbiology. Since disaster microbiology is a broad term open to interpretation, we propose criteria for what phenomena fall under its scope. The basic premise is that there must be a disaster that causes a change in the environment, which then causes an alteration to microbes (either a physical or biological adaptation), and that this adaptation must have additional ramifications.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Banco de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Planificación en Desastres / Desastres Límite: Humans Idioma: En Revista: MBio Año: 2022 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Estados Unidos

Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Banco de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Planificación en Desastres / Desastres Límite: Humans Idioma: En Revista: MBio Año: 2022 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Estados Unidos