Conveners
Session 5: Environmental Pollution & Agriculture & Health
- Arne Hegemann
- Szilvia Neuhaus
Water monitoring represents a critical nexus in One Health frameworks, serving as the intersection where human, animal, and environmental health systems converge. Natural disasters frequently compromise water distribution networks and disrupt the laboratory infrastructure essential for water quality assessment. Here we present a portable laboratory utilizing commercially available testing...
Plants serve very often as ecological niche for Salmonella enerica. Fresh plant foods consumed raw have been linked to numerous outbreaks. In recent years, one critical concern has been the multidrug resistance (MDR) observed in Salmonella strains. Among the many serovars, Salmonella serovar Infantis ranks as the fourth most commonly reported serovar in human infections. A megaplasmid...
The German Environmental Survey (GerES) is the largest study of human exposure to potentially harmful pollutants in Germany. Since the first cycle started in 1985, it has provided population-representative human biomonitoring (HBM) and ambient monitoring data for 40 years. The sixth cycle has just been completed, and recent samples of urine, blood, tap water, indoor and outdoor air, and house...
Actinobacteria of the genus Streptomyces play a crucial role in supporting a fertile and biologically active soil ecosystem due to their unique biological and ecological functions1. They secrete a broad array of hydrolases which break down complex organic compounds like cellulose and chitin needed for recycling of nutrients and enrichment of the soil. They also produce many different...
Background: Lead is a pervasive environmental pollutant with no evidence for safe exposure levels in humans. Children represent a particularly vulnerable population due to higher absorption rates and their developing nervous system. Neurodevelopmental effects in children are the most sensitive health outcomes associated with lead exposure. This demonstrates the intricate connection between...
Contemporarily, remote sensing (RS) technology and geographical information systems (GIS) are increasingly used as tools for epidemiological studies and the control of zoonotic diseases. Fasciolosis, a zoonotic disease caused by a trematode parasite (Fasciola spp.), is a good candidate for the application of RS and GIS in epidemiology, strongly influenced by the habitat of the intermediate...
