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| Title |
Occurrence of Harmful Cyanobacteria in Drinking Water from a Severely Drought-Impacted Semi-arid Region
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Microbiology, February 2018
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| DOI | 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00176 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Juline M. Walter, Fabyano A. C. Lopes, Mônica Lopes-Ferreira, Lívia M. Vidal, Luciana Leomil, Fabiana Melo, Girlene S. de Azevedo, Rossandra M. S. Oliveira, Alba J. Medeiros, Adriana S. O. Melo, Carlos E. De Rezende, Amilcar Tanuri, Fabiano L. Thompson |
| Abstract |
Harmful cyanobacterial blooms have become increasingly common in freshwater ecosystems in recent decades, mainly due to eutrophication and climate change. Water becomes unreliable for human consumption. Here, we report a comprehensive study carried out to investigate the water quality of several Campina Grande reservoirs. Our approach included metagenomics, microbial abundance quantification, ELISA test for three cyanotoxins (microcystin, nodularins, and cylindrospermopsin), andin vivoecotoxicological tests with zebrafish embryos. Cytometry analysis showed high cyanobacterial abundance, while metagenomics identified an average of 10.6% of cyanobacterial sequences, and demonstrated the presence ofMicrocystis,Cylindrospermopsis, and toxin coding genes in all ponds. Zebrafish embryos reared with pond water had high mortality and diverse malformations. Among the ponds analyzed, Araçagi showed the highest lethality (an average of 62.9 ± 0.8%), followed by Boqueirão (lethality average of 62.5 ± 0.8%). Here, we demonstrate that water from ponds undergoing extremely drought conditions have an abundance of potentially harmful cyanobacteria and their toxins. Our findings are consistent with a scenario in which polluted drinking water poses a great risk to human health. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 2 | 33% |
| Unknown | 4 | 67% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 83% |
| Scientists | 1 | 17% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 98 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 15 | 15% |
| Researcher | 12 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 5% |
| Other | 14 | 14% |
| Unknown | 33 | 34% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 11 | 11% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 10 | 10% |
| Environmental Science | 6 | 6% |
| Engineering | 6 | 6% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 5 | 5% |
| Other | 24 | 24% |
| Unknown | 36 | 37% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 March 2018.
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#6,312,353
of 23,316,003 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Microbiology
#6,158
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#110,256
of 331,280 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Microbiology
#218
of 598 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,316,003 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 72nd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 25,624 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.4. This one has done well, scoring higher than 75% of its peers.
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