The Battle against Legionella. Disinfection in Manmade Water Systems: A Systematic Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 04 (03) ◽  
Author(s):  
Venia Stavrou ◽  
Ioanna Chatziprodromidou ◽  
Apostolos Vantarakis
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Water Systems

scholarly journals Influences of Land-Use Dynamics and Surface Water Systems Interactions on Water-Related Infectious Diseases—A Systematic Review

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 631
Author(s):  
Joshua Ntajal ◽  
Timo Falkenberg ◽  
Thomas Kistemann ◽  
Mariele Evers
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Water Quality ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Surface Water ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Water Systems ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Land Use Dynamics ◽  
Surface Water Systems

Human interactions with surface water systems, through land-use dynamics, can influence the transmission of infectious water-related diseases. As a result, the aim of our study was to explore and examine the state of scientific evidence on the influences of these interactions on water-related infectious disease outcomes from a global perspective. A systematic review was conducted, using 54 peer-reviewed research articles published between 1995 and August 2019. The study revealed that there has been an increase in the number of publications since 2009; however, few of these publications (n = 6) made explicit linkages to the topic. It was found that urban and agricultural land-use changes had relatively high adverse impacts on water quality, due to high concentrations of fecal matter, heavy metals, and nutrients in surface water systems. Water systems were found as the common “vehicle” for infectious disease transmission, which in turn had linkages to sanitation and hygiene conditions. The study found explicit linkages between human–surface water interaction patterns and the transmission of water-based disease. However, weak and complex linkages were found between land-use change and the transmission of water-borne disease, due to multiple pathways and the dynamics of the other determinants of the disease. Therefore, further research studies, using interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to investigate and enhance a deeper understanding of these complexities and linkages among land use, surface water quality, and water-related infectious diseases, is crucial in developing integrated measures for sustainable water quality monitoring and diseases prevention.

The prevalence of Legionella pneumophila in different water systems: A global systematic review and meta-analysis

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yadolah Fakhri ◽  
Mohammad Javad Nasiri ◽  
Anvar Asadi ◽  
Moayed Avazpour ◽  
Abdolazim Alinejad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Legionella Pneumophila ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Water Reservoir ◽  
Culture Method ◽  
Water Systems ◽  
Pooled Prevalence ◽  
High Prevalence ◽  
Global Concern ◽  
Polymerase Chain

Abstract The presence of Legionella pneumophila (LP) in aquatic habitat is a global concern. The current study was undertaken to estimate the prevalence of LP in water systems with the aid of a systematic review and meta-analysis. The searching was performed among some international databases, including Scopus, PubMed, and Embase to retrieve the related articles between 1/January/1983 and 25/July/ 2017. Therefore, thirty-six articles (with 43 studies) out of 1,541 articles collected, were included in the meta-analysis. The overall prevalence of LP in water systems was determined as 20% (95%CI: 15-25). Also, the lowest and highest pooled prevalence of LP was observed in Poland (4% (95%CI: 0-13%)) and Kuwait (98% (95%CI: 90-100%)), respectively. The lowest and highest prevalence of LP-based on water resources subgroups was a water reservoir (15% (95%CI: 2-37%) and well (40% (95%CI: 26-50%), respectively. The number of studies that used polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for detection of LP was 16/43 (37.3%) while the culture method was 27/43 (62.7%). Generally speaking, the relatively high prevalence of LP among the investigated water systems was demonstrated, which should be reduced by performing appropriate control actions.

scholarly journals A Systematic Review of Waterborne Disease Outbreaks Associated with Small Non-Community Drinking Water Systems in Canada and the United States

PLoS ONE ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. e0141646 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Pons ◽  
Ian Young ◽  
Jenifer Truong ◽  
Andria Jones-Bitton ◽  
Scott McEwen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Disease Outbreaks ◽  
The United States ◽  
Water Systems ◽  
Waterborne Disease ◽  
Drinking Water Systems

scholarly journals Structure of Bacterial Community with Resistance to Antibiotics in Aquatic Environments. A Systematic Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 2348
Author(s):  
Ana María Sánchez-Baena ◽  
Luz Dary Caicedo-Bejarano ◽  
Mónica Chávez-Vivas
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Antibiotic Resistance ◽  
Bacterial Community ◽  
Resistance Genes ◽  
Antibiotic Resistance Genes ◽  
Water Systems ◽  
Anthropogenic Activity ◽  
Aquatic Environments ◽  
Resistance To Antibiotics ◽  
Artificial Water

Aquatic environments have been affected by the increase in bacterial resistant to antibiotics. The aim of this review is to describe the studies carried out in relation to the bacterial population structure and antibiotic resistance genes in natural and artificial water systems. We performed a systematic review based on the PRISMA guideline (preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyzes). Articles were collected from scientific databases between January 2010 and December 2020. Sixty-eight papers meeting the inclusion criteria, i.e., “reporting the water bacterial community composition”, “resistance to antibiotics”, and “antibiotic resistance genes (ARG)”, were evaluated according to pre-defined validity criteria. The results indicate that the predominant phyla were Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes in natural and artificial water systems. Gram-negative bacteria of the family Enterobacteraceae with resistance to antibiotics are commonly reported in drinking water and in natural water systems. The ARGs mainly reported were those that confer resistance to β-lactam antibiotics, aminoglycosides, fluoroquinolones, macrolides and tetracycline. The high influence of anthropogenic activity in the environment is evidenced. The antibiotic resistance genes that are mainly reported in the urban areas of the world are those that confer resistance to the antibiotics that are most used in clinical practice, which constitutes a problem for human and animal health.

scholarly journals A systematic review of geospatial representation of United States community water systems

2022 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yolanda J. McDonald ◽  
Kayla M. Anderson ◽  
Mariah D. Caballero ◽  
Ke Jack Ding ◽  
Douglas H. Fisher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Water Systems ◽  
Community Water Systems ◽  
Community Water

scholarly journals A systematic review of microorganisms as indicators of recreational water quality in natural and drinking water systems

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Luis Lugo ◽  
Elkyn Rafael Lugo ◽  
Mario de la Puente
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Water Quality ◽  
Water Quality Management ◽  
Microbiological Quality ◽  
Biological Indicators ◽  
Water Systems ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Recreational Water ◽  
Microbiological Indicators

Abstract The purpose of this review was to highlight the most frequent biological indicators used to estimate the microbiological quality of drinking and recreational water. It was observed that the incorporation of other microbiological indicators should be considered to strengthen the decision-making process on water quality management and guarantee its safe consumption in recreational activities.

Association between healthcare water systems and Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections: a rapid systematic review

2014 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.P. Loveday ◽  
J.A. Wilson ◽  
K. Kerr ◽  
R. Pitchers ◽  
J.T. Walker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Pseudomonas Aeruginosa ◽  
Water Systems

scholarly journals A Systematic Review of Spatial-Temporal Scale Issues in Sociohydrology

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amariah Fischer ◽  
Jacob A. Miller ◽  
Emily Nottingham ◽  
Travis Wiederstein ◽  
Laura J. Krueger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Water Systems ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Temporal Scale ◽  
Recent Effort ◽  
Social Models ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
Natural Boundaries ◽  
Event Based

Sociohydrology is a recent effort to integrate coupled human-water systems to understand the dynamics and co-evolution of the system in a holistic sense. However, due to the complexity and uncertainty involved in coupled human-water systems, the feedbacks and interactions are inherently difficult to model. Part of this complexity is due to the multi-scale nature across space and time at which different hydrologic and social processes occur and the varying scale at which data is available. This systematic review seeks to comprehensively collect those documents that conduct analysis within the sociohydrology framework to quantify the spatial-temporal scale(s) and the types of variables and datasets that were used. Overall, a majority of sociohydrology studies reviewed were primarily published in hydrological journals and contain more established hydrological, rather than social, models. The spatial extents varied by political and natural boundaries with the most common being cities and watersheds. Temporal extents also varied from event-based to millennial timescales where decadal and yearly were the most common. In addition to this, current limitations of sociohydrology research, notably the absence of an interdisciplinary unity, future directions, and implications for scholars doing sociohydrology are discussed.

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