Publications by authors named "Carmine Fusaro"

Street food may be a vehicle of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) to humans. Foods contaminated with ARB entail serious problems or challenges in the fields of medical care, animal husbandry, food industry, and public health worldwide. The objectives of this systematic review were to identify and evaluate scientific reports associated with ARB isolated from various street foods.

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spp. are among the few enteric parasites with a prevalence that can reach up to approximately 80% in communities of developing countries. This systematic review updates and summarizes available literature on the molecular prevalence and subtype distribution of spp.

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  • * The systematic review aims to evaluate the prevalence and epidemiology of this protozoan infection in Colombia, summarizing studies from 2010 to 2022 and identifying gaps in existing knowledge.
  • * Analysis of 23 studies across 22 Colombian departments shows prevalence rates ranging from 0.9% to 48.1% using microscopy and even higher (4.2% to 100%) with advanced molecular techniques, highlighting dominant genetic variants A and B.
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Background: Giardia spp. is the most common protozoan found in coproparasitoscopic tests; it is the cause of gastrointestinal discomfort, with a high prevalence in children and in low-income areas. This systematic review updates available literature on molecular identification of Giardia spp.

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Background: The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is the second global health emergency the world has faced in less than two decades, after the H1N1 Influenza pandemic in 2009-2010. Spread of pandemics is frequently associated with increased population size and population density. The geographical scales (national, regional or local scale) are key elements in determining the correlation between demographic factors and the spread of outbreaks.

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  • The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, with over 91 million cases and 1.9 million deaths globally, prompting a review of people's Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices (KAP) regarding the disease in America.
  • Using PRISMA guidelines, researchers analyzed reports from December 2019 to September 2020 on "COVID-19 KAP," ultimately including 13 eligible scientific papers focusing on various population groups.
  • Findings revealed that misinformation from social media impacted public understanding, leading to misconceptions about COVID-19 risk, and highlighted the need for targeted awareness campaigns, particularly for marginalized communities.
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Land-use change has been identified as the most severe threat to biodiversity. Soils are important biodiversity reservoirs, but to what extent conversion of high-altitude temperate forest to arable land affects taxonomic and functional soil biodiversity is still largely unknown. Shotgun metagenomics was used to determine the taxonomic and functional diversity of bacteria, archaea and DNA virus in terms of effective number of species in high-altitude temperate oak and pine-oak forest and arable soils from Mexico.

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Background: Terrestrial ecosystems play a significant role in carbon (C) storage. Human activities, such as urbanization, infrastructure, and land use change, can reduce significantly the C stored in the soil. The aim of this research was to measure the spatial variability of soil organic C (SOC) in the national park La Malinche (NPLM) in the central highlands of Mexico as an example of highland ecosystems and to determine the impact of land use change on the SOC stocks through deterministic and geostatistical geographic information system (GIS) based methods.

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Background: A great number of studies have shown that the distribution of microorganisms in the soil is not random, but that their abundance changes along environmental gradients (spatial patterns). The present study examined the spatial variability of the physicochemical characteristics of an extreme alkaline saline soil and how they controlled the archaeal and bacterial communities so as to determine the main spatial community drivers.

Methods: The archaeal and bacterial community structure, and soil characteristics were determined at 13 points along a 211 m transect in the former lake Texcoco.

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