Local and Environmental Reservoirs of Salmonella enterica After Hurricane Florence Flooding

• Published in: Geohealth Vol. 7; no. 11; pp. e2023GH000877 - n/a
• Main Authors: Mao, Yuqing, Zeineldin, Mohamed, Usmani, Moiz, Jutla, Antarpreet, Shisler, Joanna L., Whitaker, Rachel J., Nguyen, Thanh H.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.11.2023; John Wiley and Sons Inc; American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• Subjects: Agricultural production; Antibiotic resistance; Antibiotics; Bacteria; Chromosomes; Climate change; Drug resistance; Feces; flood; Flooding; Floods; Floodwater; Genetic markers; Genetic testing; Genomes; Geohealth; Hurricanes; Hypotheses; Impacts of Climate Change: Agricultural Health; Impacts of Climate Change: Human Health; long‐read; mobile genetic element; Pathogens; Phylogenetics; Public Health; Salmonella; Swine; Water analysis; Water sampling; whole‐genome sequencing; United States > US; Salmonella; long‐read; whole‐genome sequencing; flood; mobile genetic element

In many regions of the world, including the United States, human and animal fecal genetic markers have been found in flood waters. In this study, we use high‐resolution whole genomic sequencing to examine the origin and distribution of Salmonella enterica after the 2018 Hurricane Florence flooding....