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Crisafi F, Smedile F, Yakimov MM, Aulenta F, Fazi S, La Cono V, Martinelli A, Di Lisio V, Denaro R. Bacterial biofilms on medical masks disposed in the marine environment: a hotspot of biological and functional diversity. Sci Total Environ 2022; 837:155731. [PMID: 35533867 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2022] [Revised: 04/30/2022] [Accepted: 05/02/2022] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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The present paper was aimed at investigating the role of disposable medical masks as a substrate for microbial biofilm growth and for the selection of specific microbial traits in highly impacted marine environments. In this view, we have immerged masks in a coastal area affected by a continuous input of artisanal fishery wastes and hydrocarbons pollution caused by intense maritime traffic. Masks maintained one month in the field were colonized by a bacterial community significantly different from that detected in the natural matrices from the same areas (seawater and sediments). The masks served as a viable substrate for the growth and enrichment of phototrophic microorganisms (Oxyphotobacteria), as well as Ruminococcaceae, Gracilibacteria, and Holophageae. In a follow-up investigation, masks previously colonized in the field were transferred in lab-scale microcosms which were supplemented with hydrocarbons and which contained also a piece of a virgin mask. After one month, a shift in the community composition, likely triggered by hydrocarbons addition, was observed in the previously colonized mask, with signatures characteristic of hydrocarbon-degrading microbial groups. Such hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria were also found to colonize the virgin mask. Remarkably, SEM micrographs provided indications of the occurrence of morphological modifications of the surface components of the virgin masks colonized by hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria. Overall, for the first time, we have demonstrated the potential risk for human and animal health determined by the uncorrected disposal of masks which are suitable substrates for pathogens colonization, permanence and spreading. Moreover, we have herein strengthened the knowledge on the role of hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria in the colonization and modification of fossil-based plastics in marine environment.
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- F Crisafi
- Institute of Polar Sciences, National Research Council (ISP-CNR), Spianata San Raineri, 86, 98121 Messina, Italy
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- Institute of Polar Sciences, National Research Council (ISP-CNR), Spianata San Raineri, 86, 98121 Messina, Italy
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- Institute of Polar Sciences, National Research Council (ISP-CNR), Spianata San Raineri, 86, 98121 Messina, Italy
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- Water Research Institute, National Research Council (IRSA-CNR), Via Salaria km 29, 300, 00015 Monterotondo, Rome, Italy
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- Water Research Institute, National Research Council (IRSA-CNR), Via Salaria km 29, 300, 00015 Monterotondo, Rome, Italy
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- Institute of Polar Sciences, National Research Council (ISP-CNR), Spianata San Raineri, 86, 98121 Messina, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Donostia International Physics Center, Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal, 4, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
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- Water Research Institute, National Research Council (IRSA-CNR), Via Salaria km 29, 300, 00015 Monterotondo, Rome, Italy.
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Denaro R, Aulenta F, Crisafi F, Di Pippo F, Cruz Viggi C, Matturro B, Tomei P, Smedile F, Martinelli A, Di Lisio V, Venezia C, Rossetti S. Marine hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria breakdown poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET). Sci Total Environ 2020; 749:141608. [PMID: 32836129 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2020] [Revised: 08/07/2020] [Accepted: 08/08/2020] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Pollution of aquatic ecosystems by plastic wastes poses severe environmental and health problems and has prompted scientific investigations on the fate and factors contributing to the modification of plastics in the marine environment. Here, we investigated, by means of microcosm studies, the role of hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria in the degradation of poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET), the main constituents of plastic bottles, in the marine environment. To this aim, different bacterial consortia, previously acclimated to representative hydrocarbons fractions namely, tetradecane (aliphatic fraction), diesel (mixture of hydrocarbons), and naphthalene/phenantrene (aromatic fraction), were used as inocula of microcosm experiments, in order to identify peculiar specialization in poly(ethylene terephthalate) degradation. Upon formation of a mature biofilm on the surface of poly(ethylene terephthalate) films, the bacterial biodiversity and degradation efficiency of each selected consortium was analyzed. Notably, significant differences on biofilm biodiversity were observed with distinctive hydrocarbons-degraders being enriched on poly(ethylene terephthalate) surface, such as Alcanivorax, Hyphomonas, and Cycloclasticus species. Interestingly, ATR-FTIR analyses, supported by SEM and water contact angle measurements, revealed major alterations of the surface chemistry and morphology of PET films, mainly driven by the bacterial consortia enriched on tetradecane and diesel. Distinctive signatures of microbial activity were the alteration of the FTIR spectra as a consequence of PET chain scission through the hydrolysis of the ester bond, the increased sample hydrophobicity as well as the formation of small cracks and cavities on the surface of the film. In conclusion, our study demonstrates for the first time that hydrocarbons-degrading marine bacteria have the potential to degrade poly(ethylene terephthalate), although their degradative activity could potentially trigger the formation of harmful microplastics in the marine environment.
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- R Denaro
- Water Research Institute (IRSA) (CNR), Via Salaria km 29, 300, 00015 Monterotondo, Rome, Italy.
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- Water Research Institute (IRSA) (CNR), Via Salaria km 29, 300, 00015 Monterotondo, Rome, Italy
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- Institute for Biological Resources and Marine Biotechnology (IRBIM) (CNR), Spianata San Raineri, 86, 98121 Messina, Italy
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- Water Research Institute (IRSA) (CNR), Via Salaria km 29, 300, 00015 Monterotondo, Rome, Italy
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- Water Research Institute (IRSA) (CNR), Via Salaria km 29, 300, 00015 Monterotondo, Rome, Italy
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- Water Research Institute (IRSA) (CNR), Via Salaria km 29, 300, 00015 Monterotondo, Rome, Italy
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- Water Research Institute (IRSA) (CNR), Via Salaria km 29, 300, 00015 Monterotondo, Rome, Italy
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- Institute for Biological Resources and Marine Biotechnology (IRBIM) (CNR), Spianata San Raineri, 86, 98121 Messina, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Water Research Institute (IRSA) (CNR), Via Salaria km 29, 300, 00015 Monterotondo, Rome, Italy
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- Water Research Institute (IRSA) (CNR), Via Salaria km 29, 300, 00015 Monterotondo, Rome, Italy
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Barry PH, de Moor JM, Giovannelli D, Schrenk M, Hummer DR, Lopez T, Pratt CA, Segura YA, Battaglia A, Beaudry P, Bini G, Cascante M, d'Errico G, di Carlo M, Fattorini D, Fullerton K, Gazel E, González G, Halldórsson SA, Ilanko T, Iacovino K, Kulongoski JT, Manini E, Martínez M, Miller H, Nakagawa M, Ono S, Patwardhan S, Ramírez CJ, Regoli F, Smedile F, Turner S, Vetriani C, Yücel M, Ballentine CJ, Fischer TP, Hilton DR, Lloyd KG. Author Correction: Forearc carbon sink reduces long-term volatile recycling into the mantle. Nature 2019; 575:E6. [PMID: 31712624 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1756-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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An Amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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- P H Barry
- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. .,Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA.
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- Observatorio Volcanológico y Sismológico de Costa Rica (OVSICORI), Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica.,Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
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- Institute for Marine Biological and Biotechnological Resources, National Research Council of Italy (CNR-IRBIM), Ancona, Italy.,Department of Marine and Coastal Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.,Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute for Technology, Tokyo, Japan.,Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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- Department of Geology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA
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- Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, USA
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- Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA
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- Department of Earth and Marine Sciences, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Observatorio Volcanológico y Sismológico de Costa Rica (OVSICORI), Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica
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- Institute for Marine Biological and Biotechnological Resources, National Research Council of Italy (CNR-IRBIM), Ancona, Italy.,Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell'Ambiente (DISVA), Università Politecnica delle Marche (UNIVPM), Ancona, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell'Ambiente (DISVA), Università Politecnica delle Marche (UNIVPM), Ancona, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell'Ambiente (DISVA), Università Politecnica delle Marche (UNIVPM), Ancona, Italy.,CoNISMa, Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario Scienze del Mare, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
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- Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Volcanes Sin Fronteras (VSF), San Jose, Costa Rica
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- NordVulk, Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
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- Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.,Johnson Space Center, NASA, Houston, TX, USA
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- Geosciences Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
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- Institute for Marine Biological and Biotechnological Resources, National Research Council of Italy (CNR-IRBIM), Ancona, Italy
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- Observatorio Volcanológico y Sismológico de Costa Rica (OVSICORI), Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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- Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute for Technology, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Marine and Coastal Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
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- Volcanes Sin Fronteras (VSF), San Jose, Costa Rica
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell'Ambiente (DISVA), Università Politecnica delle Marche (UNIVPM), Ancona, Italy.,CoNISMa, Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario Scienze del Mare, Rome, Italy
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- Institute for Marine Biological and Biotechnological Resources, National Research Council of Italy (CNR-IRBIM), Ancona, Italy.,Department of Marine and Coastal Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
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- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Marine and Coastal Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
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- Institute of Marine Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Erdemli, Turkey
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- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
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- Geosciences Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
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Bortoluzzi G, Romeo T, La Cono V, La Spada G, Smedile F, Esposito V, Sabatino G, Di Bella M, Canese S, Scotti G, Bo M, Giuliano L, Jones D, Golyshin PN, Yakimov MM, Andaloro F. Ferrous iron- and ammonium-rich diffuse vents support habitat-specific communities in a shallow hydrothermal field off the Basiluzzo Islet (Aeolian Volcanic Archipelago). Geobiology 2017; 15:664-677. [PMID: 28383164 DOI: 10.1111/gbi.12237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2016] [Accepted: 03/09/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Ammonium- and Fe(II)-rich fluid flows, known from deep-sea hydrothermal systems, have been extensively studied in the last decades and are considered as sites with high microbial diversity and activity. Their shallow-submarine counterparts, despite their easier accessibility, have so far been under-investigated, and as a consequence, much less is known about microbial communities inhabiting these ecosystems. A field of shallow expulsion of hydrothermal fluids has been discovered at depths of 170-400 meters off the base of the Basiluzzo Islet (Aeolian Volcanic Archipelago, Southern Tyrrhenian Sea). This area consists predominantly of both actively diffusing and inactive 1-3 meters-high structures in the form of vertical pinnacles, steeples and mounds covered by a thick orange to brown crust deposits hosting rich benthic fauna. Integrated morphological, mineralogical, and geochemical analyses revealed that, above all, these crusts are formed by ferrihydrite-type Fe3+ oxyhydroxides. Two cruises in 2013 allowed us to monitor and sampled this novel ecosystem, certainly interesting in terms of shallow-water iron-rich site. The main objective of this work was to characterize the composition of extant communities of iron microbial mats in relation to the environmental setting and the observed patterns of macrofaunal colonization. We demonstrated that iron-rich deposits contain complex and stratified microbial communities with a high proportion of prokaryotes akin to ammonium- and iron-oxidizing chemoautotrophs, belonging to Thaumarchaeota, Nitrospira, and Zetaproteobacteria. Colonizers of iron-rich mounds, while composed of the common macrobenthic grazers, predators, filter-feeders, and tube-dwellers with no representatives of vent endemic fauna, differed from the surrounding populations. Thus, it is very likely that reduced electron donors (Fe2+ and NH4+ ) are important energy sources in supporting primary production in microbial mats, which form a habitat-specific trophic base of the whole Basiluzzo hydrothermal ecosystem, including macrobenthic fauna.
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- G Bortoluzzi
- Institute for Marine Sciences, ISMAR-CNR, Bologna, Italy
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- Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, ISPRA, Milazzo, Italy
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- Institute for Coastal Marine Environment, IAMC-CNR, Messina, Italy
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- Institute for Coastal Marine Environment, IAMC-CNR, Messina, Italy
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- Institute for Coastal Marine Environment, IAMC-CNR, Messina, Italy
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- Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, ISPRA, Milazzo, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
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- National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Palermo, Italy
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- Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, ISPRA, Milazzo, Italy
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- Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, ISPRA, Milazzo, Italy
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- DISTAV, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
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- Institute for Coastal Marine Environment, IAMC-CNR, Messina, Italy
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- School of Environment, Natural Resources & Geography, Bangor University, Bangor, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, UK
- Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia
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- Institute for Coastal Marine Environment, IAMC-CNR, Messina, Italy
- Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia
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- Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, ISPRA, Palermo, Italy
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Crisafi F, Genovese M, Smedile F, Russo D, Catalfamo M, Yakimov M, Giuliano L, Denaro R. Bioremediation technologies for polluted seawater sampled after an oil-spill in Taranto Gulf (Italy): A comparison of biostimulation, bioaugmentation and use of a washing agent in microcosm studies. Mar Pollut Bull 2016; 106:119-126. [PMID: 26992747 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.03.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2015] [Revised: 03/08/2016] [Accepted: 03/09/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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One of the main challenges of bioremediation is to define efficient protocols having a low environmental impact. We have investigated the effect of three treatments in oily-seawater after a real oil-spill occurred in the Gulf of Taranto (Italy). Biostimulation with inorganic nutrients allowed the biodegradation of the 73±2.4% of hydrocarbons, bioaugmentation with a selected hydrocarbonoclastic consortium consisting of Alcanivorax borkumensis, Alcanivorax dieselolei, Marinobacter hydrocarbonoclasticus, Cycloclasticus sp. 78-ME and Thalassolituus oleivorans degraded 79±3.2%, while the addition of nutrients and a washing agent has allowed the degradation of the 69±2.6%. On the other hand, microbial community was severely affected by the addition of the washing agent and the same product seemed to inhibit the growth of the majority of strains composing the selected consortium at the tested concentration. The use of dispersant should be accurately evaluated also considering its effect on the principal actors of biodegradation.
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- F Crisafi
- Institute for Coastal Marine Environment CNR, Sp.ta S. Raineri 86, 98122 Messina, Italy
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- Institute for Coastal Marine Environment CNR, Sp.ta S. Raineri 86, 98122 Messina, Italy
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- Institute for Coastal Marine Environment CNR, Sp.ta S. Raineri 86, 98122 Messina, Italy
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- Institute for Coastal Marine Environment CNR, Sp.ta S. Raineri 86, 98122 Messina, Italy
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- Institute for Coastal Marine Environment CNR, Sp.ta S. Raineri 86, 98122 Messina, Italy
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- Institute for Coastal Marine Environment CNR, Sp.ta S. Raineri 86, 98122 Messina, Italy
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- Institute for Coastal Marine Environment CNR, Sp.ta S. Raineri 86, 98122 Messina, Italy
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- Institute for Coastal Marine Environment CNR, Sp.ta S. Raineri 86, 98122 Messina, Italy.
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Michaud L, Lo Giudice A, Troussellier M, Smedile F, Bruni V, Blancheton J. Phylogenetic characterization of the heterotrophic bacterial communities inhabiting a marine recirculating aquaculture system. J Appl Microbiol 2009; 107:1935-46. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2672.2009.04378.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Pavia R, Mulè V, Angiò L, Monaco F, Smedile F, Fabiano G, Mondello B, Monaco M. [Intraoperative pleural lavage for restaging of bronchogenic carcinoma]. MINERVA CHIR 2003; 58:67-9. [PMID: 12692498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/01/2023]
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BACKGROUND Although lung cancer staging has been recently reviewed, a significant number of recurrences and an increased incidence of mortality is common also in the initial stages of the disease. All that is probably due to disease staging underestimation and emphasizes that an exact system of staging cannot be considered a stand-alone prognostic and therapeutic index. METHODS Between October 2000 and November 2001, 37 patients have undergone surgical intervention for NSCLC in our Surgical Unit; 28 of them were male (75.7%), 9 female (24.3%), aged between 55 and 70. Neither cancer-related pleural effusion, nor mediastinal lymphoadenopathy had been detected under Rx and TC inspection in any patient. RESULTS Pre-surgical pleural washing (PLC), which defines the positiveness of the cytological result (D+), in 17 patients (45.9%) was positive, in the remaining 20 (54.1%) negative. The positiveness of PLC was 35.3% (6/17) and 64.7% (11/17) in the initial stage of T (T1 and T2) and in the advanced stage (T3 and T4) respectively. CONCLUSIONS On the basis of personal experience, the authors, suggest that pre-surgical resection pleural washing searching premature microscopic pleural disseminations in NSCLC-affected patients should become an important prognostic factor for the disease outcome. Moreover, they emphasize how this procedure is easy, with a small increase in the surgical intervention time, and nearly costless.
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- R Pavia
- Dipartimento Clinico Sperimentale di Medicina e Farmacologia, Sezione di Chirurgia Toracica, Università degli Studi di Messina, Messina, Italy
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