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Legionnaires' disease

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Bacterial resistances to antibiotics and high frequency of resistance genes in effluent of shrimp farming facility (Long An, Viet Nam)

Pierre Rossi, Luiz Felippe De Alencastro

The emergence and the spreading of antibiotic resistant (AR) bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) are considered currently as a growing issue for human health. Shrimp farmers in Viet Nam have access to and make use of a wide variety of antibioti ...

2017

A metacommunity model for the spread of proliferative kidney disease in stream networks

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Lorenzo Mari, Luca Carraro, Marino Gatto

Proliferative kidney disease (PKD) affects freshwater salmonid populations in temperate European and North-American rivers. It is caused by the endoparasitic myxozoan Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae, which exploits freshwater bryozoans as intermediate hosts. ...

2017

Structural and functional characterization of the mycobacterial ESX-1 secretion system

Ye Lou

Human tuberculosis (TB) is a frequently fatal lung disease mostly caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb), a slow-growing intracellular pathogen. M. tb utilizes the ESX-1 secretion system, classified as type VII, to export the virulence factors needed ...

EPFL2016

Spatially Explicit Conditions for Waterborne Pathogen Invasion

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Lorenzo Mari, Lorenzo Righetto, Marino Gatto

Waterborne pathogens cause many possibly lethal human diseases. We derive the condition for pathogen invasion and subsequent disease outbreak in a territory with specific, space-inhomogeneous characteristics (hydrological, ecological, demographic, and epid ...

Univ Chicago Press2013

Complex social contagion makes networks more vulnerable to disease outbreaks

Marcel Salathé

Social network analysis is now widely used to investigate the dynamics of infectious disease spread. Vaccination dramatically disrupts disease transmission on a contact network, and indeed, high vaccination rates can potentially halt disease transmission a ...

2013

Modeling of facade leaching in urban catchments

David Andrew Barry, Luca Rossi, Sylvain Coutu, Dario Del Giudice

Building facades are protected from microbial attack by incorporation of biocides within them. Flow over facades leaches these biocides and transports them to the urban environment. A parsimonious water quantity/quality model applicable for engineered urba ...

American Geophysical Union2012

Reassessment of the 2010-2011 Haiti cholera outbreak and rainfall-driven multiseason projections

Andrea Rinaldo, Melanie Blokesch, Enrico Bertuzzo, Lorenzo Mari, Lorenzo Righetto, Marino Gatto

Mathematical models can provide key insights into the course of an ongoing epidemic, potentially aiding real-time emergency management in allocating health care resources and by anticipating the impact of alternative interventions. We study the ex post rel ...

2012

Hydroclimatology of dual-peak annual cholera incidence: Insights from a spatially explicit model

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Lorenzo Mari, Lorenzo Righetto, Marino Gatto

Cholera incidence in some regions of the Indian subcontinent may exhibit two annual peaks although the main environmental drivers that have been linked to the disease (e.g., sea surface temperature, zooplankton abundance, river discharge) peak once per yea ...

2012

Biocides in paints in urban areas: Modelling an underestimated source of environmental contamination

David Andrew Barry, Luca Rossi, Sylvain Coutu, Chiara Rota

Biocide contamination of receiving waters is generally linked with agriculture. However, recent studies have shown that urban contributions should be also considered. One of the suspected biocide sources in the urban environment is building paint. Biocides ...

2011

Real-life efficiency of urine source separation

Luca Rossi

Urine source separation (NoMix technology) is a promising innovation in wastewater management. To improve and further develop NoMix technology, it has been implemented in four Swiss households and at our research institute (Eawag). We conducted measurement ...

Elsevier2009

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