{"id":3615,"date":"2023-05-22T20:13:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T01:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=3615"},"modified":"2023-05-22T20:13:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T01:13:15","slug":"the-perfect-pathogen-storm-deadly-bacteria-is-adapting-to-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/05\/22\/the-perfect-pathogen-storm-deadly-bacteria-is-adapting-to-plastic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect \u201cPathogen\u201d Storm \u2013 Deadly Bacteria Is Adapting to Plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/the-perfect-pathogen-storm-deadly-bacteria-is-adapting-to-plastic\/\">Sci Tech Daily<\/a> Genomics study in the Caribbean and Sargasso Seas signifies the first assembly of vibrio bacteria sourced from plastic waste. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recent research has unveiled how the interaction among&nbsp;<em>Sargassum<\/em>&nbsp;species, plastic marine waste, and&nbsp;<em>Vibrio<\/em>&nbsp;bacteria creates the perfect \u201cpathogen\u201d that poses threats to marine biodiversity and public health.&nbsp;<em>Vibrio<\/em>&nbsp;bacteria, commonly found in global waters, are the leading cause of marine-related human fatalities. For instance,&nbsp;<em>Vibrio vulnificus<\/em>, often known as the flesh-eating bacteria, can cause severe foodborne illnesses from consuming seafood and can lead to infections and death from open wounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From 2011 onwards, there\u2019s been a notable increase in the presence of\u00a0<em>Sargassum<\/em>, a type of free-living brown macroalgae, in the Sargasso Sea and other open ocean areas like the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, with regular and unusual seaweed accumulation events occurring on beaches. Additionally, plastic marine waste, initially discovered in the surface waters of the Sargasso Sea, has emerged as a global concern due to its longevity, persisting for decades longer than natural substrates in the marine ecosystem. Currently, little is known about the ecological relationship of vibrios with\u00a0<em>Sargassum<\/em>. Moreover, genomic and metagenomic evidence has been lacking as to whether vibrios colonizing plastic marine debris and\u00a0<em>Sargassum<\/em>\u00a0could potentially infect humans. As summer kicks into high gear and efforts are underway to find innovative solutions to repurpose\u00a0<em>Sargassum,\u00a0<\/em>could these substrates pose a triple threat to public health?<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"reZT  DP MhY lGiaOhOBY V C QNHP\">reZT  DP MhY lGiaOhOBY V C QNHP<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sci Tech Daily Genomics study in the Caribbean and Sargasso Seas signifies the first assembly of vibrio bacteria sourced from plastic waste. Recent research has unveiled how the interaction among&nbsp;Sargassum&nbsp;species, plastic marine waste, and&nbsp;Vibrio&nbsp;bacteria creates the perfect \u201cpathogen\u201d that poses threats to marine biodiversity and public health.&nbsp;Vibrio&nbsp;bacteria, commonly found in global waters, are the leading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":false,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3616,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615\/revisions\/3616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}