Vibrio cholerae in Water Environments: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

IF 3.6 4区生物学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Microbiology Reports Pub Date : 2025-05-29 DOI:10.1111/1758-2229.70103

Aaron Awere-Duodu, Onyansaniba K. Ntim, Eric S. Donkor

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Abstract

Vibrio cholerae is a water-borne pathogen transmitted via the faecal-oral route, with water being a major vehicle for infection. The pathogen has caused seven pandemics in history, with contaminated water identified as the infection source. Seasonal outbreaks, claiming approximately 21,000–143,000 lives yearly, are facilitated by contaminated water environments. This systematic review, therefore, determined the prevalence of V. cholerae in water environments. A comprehensive literature search was conducted in PubMed, Web of Science, and SCOPUS. After the screening process, 87 articles were included in our study. RStudio version 4.3.3 was used in conducting our meta-analysis with the data subjected to the random-effects model. The included articles were from 38 countries, which spanned 6 continents. The prevalences of V. cholerae in water environments were as follows: drinking water (15.69%), untreated sewage (57.26%), treated sewage (95.18%), surface water (41.95%), groundwater (26.23%), and others (20.81%). Continental prevalence revealed the following: Australia (85.00%), North America (66.60%), Africa (42.07), South America (39.32%), Asia (29.28%), and Europe (24.48%). There is a high prevalence of V. cholerae in water environments. More effective water treatment methods are needed to drastically reduce its prevalence to insignificant levels, especially in treated drinking water.

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水环境中的霍乱弧菌：系统综述和荟萃分析

霍乱弧菌是一种通过粪口途径传播的水媒病原体，水是感染的主要媒介。这种病原体在历史上造成了七次大流行，被污染的水被确定为传染源。受污染的水环境助长了季节性疫情，每年夺去约21 000至143 000人的生命。因此，本系统综述确定了水环境中霍乱弧菌的流行情况。在PubMed、Web of Science和SCOPUS中进行了全面的文献检索。经过筛选，87篇文章被纳入我们的研究。meta分析采用RStudio 4.3.3版本，数据采用随机效应模型。收录的文章来自6大洲的38个国家。水环境中霍乱弧菌的患病率依次为饮用水（15.69%）、未经处理污水（57.26%）、处理污水（95.18%）、地表水（41.95%）、地下水（26.23%）和其他（20.81%）。各大洲患病率依次为澳大利亚（85.00%）、北美（66.60%）、非洲（42.07）、南美（39.32%）、亚洲（29.28%）和欧洲（24.48%）。水环境中霍乱弧菌的流行率很高。需要更有效的水处理方法，将其流行率大幅降低到微不足道的水平，特别是在处理过的饮用水中。

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Environmental Microbiology Reports ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES-MICROBIOLOGY

CiteScore

6.00

自引率

3.00%

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审稿时长

3.0 months

期刊介绍： The journal is identical in scope to Environmental Microbiology, shares the same editorial team and submission site, and will apply the same high level acceptance criteria. The two journals will be mutually supportive and evolve side-by-side. Environmental Microbiology Reports provides a high profile vehicle for publication of the most innovative, original and rigorous research in the field. The scope of the Journal encompasses the diversity of current research on microbial processes in the environment, microbial communities, interactions and evolution and includes, but is not limited to, the following: the structure, activities and communal behaviour of microbial communities microbial community genetics and evolutionary processes microbial symbioses, microbial interactions and interactions with plants, animals and abiotic factors microbes in the tree of life, microbial diversification and evolution population biology and clonal structure microbial metabolic and structural diversity microbial physiology, growth and survival microbes and surfaces, adhesion and biofouling responses to environmental signals and stress factors modelling and theory development pollution microbiology extremophiles and life in extreme and unusual little-explored habitats element cycles and biogeochemical processes, primary and secondary production microbes in a changing world, microbially-influenced global changes evolution and diversity of archaeal and bacterial viruses new technological developments in microbial ecology and evolution, in particular for the study of activities of microbial communities, non-culturable microorganisms and emerging pathogens.