PMID- 17916080
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20080715
LR  - 20080123
IS  - 1462-2920 (Electronic)
IS  - 1462-2912 (Linking)
VI  - 10
IP  - 1
DP  - 2008 Jan
TI  - Sewage and community shower drains are environmental reservoirs of Fusarium 
      solani species complex group 1, a human and plant pathogen.
PG  - 219-27
AB  - In two recent studies, clinical isolates in the Fusarium solani species complex 
      (FSSC) were sequenced; one of the most common lineages was FSSC Group 1 (FSSC 1), 
      a phylogenetic species that is synonymous with F. solani f. sp. cucurbitae race 
      2, a pathogen of cucurbit fruits. FSSC 1 was also identified in sink and shower 
      drains in two hospitals. The environmental sources of FSSC 1 are important for 
      understanding the epidemiology of both human and plant diseases caused by this 
      organism. FSSC 1 was detected in sewage influent at all six tested urban 
      wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in California with a concentration ranging 
      from 75 to 413 colony-forming units (cfu) l(-1), a mean of 246 +/- 52 cfu l(-1) 
      and a median of 254 cfu l(-1). During the treatment process, the concentration of 
      FSSC 1 in the solid and liquid fractions diminished. FSSC 1 was detected in five 
      and six of 14 community shower drains by culturing and polymerase chain reaction, 
      respectively, whereas FSSC DNA was detected in all drains. FSSC accounted for 17 
      +/- 6% (n = 14) of the total fungal DNA in the drains. FSSC 1 was rarely isolated 
      from post-harvest cucurbit fruits and was not found in cucurbit fields in 
      California.
FAU - Mehl, H L
AU  - Mehl HL
AD  - Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616-8680, 
      USA.
FAU - Epstein, L
AU  - Epstein L
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20071002
PL  - England
TA  - Environ Microbiol
JT  - Environmental microbiology
JID - 100883692
RN  - 0 (Sewage)
SB  - IM
MH  - Cucurbita/microbiology
MH  - Disease Reservoirs/*microbiology
MH  - *Drainage, Sanitary
MH  - Environmental Microbiology
MH  - Fusarium/*genetics/*growth & development/isolation & purification
MH  - Humans
MH  - Mycoses/microbiology
MH  - Plant Diseases/microbiology
MH  - Sewage/*microbiology
MH  - Water Microbiology
MH  - Water Supply/analysis
EDAT- 2007/10/06 09:00
MHDA- 2008/07/17 09:00
CRDT- 2007/10/06 09:00
PHST- 2007/10/06 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2008/07/17 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2007/10/06 09:00 [entrez]
AID - EMI1446 [pii]
AID - 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01446.x [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Microbiol. 2008 Jan;10(1):219-27. doi: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01446.x. 
      Epub 2007 Oct 2.