PMID- 27128352
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20170309
LR  - 20170309
IS  - 1879-0291 (Electronic)
IS  - 0141-1136 (Linking)
VI  - 118
DP  - 2016 Jul
TI  - Microbial hitchhikers on marine plastic debris: Human exposure risks at bathing 
      waters and beach environments.
PG  - 10-9
LID - S0141-1136(16)30048-4 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.marenvres.2016.04.006 [doi]
AB  - Marine plastic debris is well characterized in terms of its ability to negatively 
      impact terrestrial and marine environments, endanger coastal wildlife, and 
      interfere with navigation, tourism and commercial fisheries. However, the impacts 
      of potentially harmful microorganisms and pathogens colonising plastic litter are 
      not well understood. The hard surface of plastics provides an ideal environment 
      for opportunistic microbial colonisers to form biofilms and might offer a 
      protective niche capable of supporting a diversity of different microorganisms, 
      known as the "Plastisphere". This biotope could act as an important vector for 
      the persistence and spread of pathogens, faecal indicator organisms (FIOs) and 
      harmful algal bloom species (HABs) across beach and bathing environments. This 
      review will focus on the existent knowledge and research gaps, and identify the 
      possible consequences of plastic-associated microbes on human health, the spread 
      of infectious diseases and bathing water quality.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Keswani, Anisha
AU  - Keswani A
AD  - Biological and Environmental Sciences, School of Natural Sciences, University of 
      Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, UK. Electronic address: anisha.keswani@stir.ac.uk.
FAU - Oliver, David M
AU  - Oliver DM
AD  - Biological and Environmental Sciences, School of Natural Sciences, University of 
      Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, UK.
FAU - Gutierrez, Tony
AU  - Gutierrez T
AD  - School of Life Sciences, Herriot Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK.
FAU - Quilliam, Richard S
AU  - Quilliam RS
AD  - Biological and Environmental Sciences, School of Natural Sciences, University of 
      Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, UK.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
DEP - 20160411
PL  - England
TA  - Mar Environ Res
JT  - Marine environmental research
JID - 9882895
RN  - 0 (Plastics)
RN  - 0 (Waste Products)
RN  - 0 (Water Pollutants)
SB  - IM
MH  - Bathing Beaches/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Biofilms
MH  - Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Plastics/*analysis
MH  - Waste Products/*analysis
MH  - *Water Microbiology
MH  - Water Pollutants/*analysis
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Bathing water quality
OT  - Biofilms
OT  - Marine plastic debris
OT  - Microplastics
OT  - Pathogens
OT  - Public health
EDAT- 2016/04/30 06:00
MHDA- 2017/03/10 06:00
CRDT- 2016/04/30 06:00
PHST- 2016/01/13 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2016/04/06 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2016/04/10 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2016/04/30 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2016/04/30 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/03/10 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0141-1136(16)30048-4 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.marenvres.2016.04.006 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Mar Environ Res. 2016 Jul;118:10-9. doi: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2016.04.006. Epub 
      2016 Apr 11.