Cyanobacteria - the missing link in vibriosis spread

O.N. Odume, C.F. Nnadozie, F.C. Akamagwuna

Sponsor: Swedish Research Council
Collaborators:  R. Amer (City of Scientific Research and Technological Applications SRTA-City), G. Bwire (Makerere 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网), R. El Shehawy (Stockholm Universitet), H. Pienaar (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Natural Resources) and E. Vellemu (Center for Agricultural Transformation, Malawi).

January 2022 – December 2024

Climate change is contributing to the spread of vibriosis, a disease caused by Vibrio bacteria, by creating more favourable conditions for Vibrio growth and affecting ecological components like bloom-forming cyanobacteria, which facilitate Vibrio persistence in ecological reservoirs. The aim of this project is to investigate how climate change influences vibriosis by analysing Vibrio bacteria in aquatic ecosystems, exploring their ecological reservoirs, assessing the impact of environmental factors, natural substrates and plastic pollution, and using food web components and cyanotoxins to understand trophic relationships and bacterial spread.

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