A5037627794- Infection Control in Healthcare
- Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
- SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
- Dental Research and COVID-19
- Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
- Gut microbiota and health
- Conservation Techniques and Studies
- Building materials and conservation
- Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis
- Nosocomial Infections in ICU
- Environmental Science and Water Management
- Fecal contamination and water quality
- Antibiotic Use and Resistance
- Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
- Antimicrobial agents and applications
- Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
- COVID-19 Prevention and Impact
- Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
- Legionella and Acanthamoeba research
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Probiotics and Fermented Foods
- Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
- Noise Effects and Management
- Marine and environmental studies
University of Ferrara
2018-2025
Purpose: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the major threats to human health, and high frequency resistant pathogens in hospital environment can contribute transmission difficult-to-treat health care-associated infections (HAIs).We recently reported that, compared with conventional chemical cleaning, use a microbial-based sanitation strategy (Probiotic Cleaning Hygiene System [PCHS]) was associated remodulation microbiota reduction HAI incidence.Here, we aimed analyze impact PCHS on...
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the extent to which public transportation environment, such as in subways, may be important for transmission of potential pathogenic microbes among humans, with possibility rapidly impacting large numbers people. For these reasons, sanitation procedures, including massive use chemical disinfection, were mandatorily introduced during emergency and remain place. However, most disinfectants have temporary action a high environmental impact, potentially...
It is important to characterize the microorganisms involved in biodeterioration processes understand their effects on cultural assets and define an efficient strategy for protecting artworks, monuments, buildings from microbiological recolonization. In this study, we analyzed microbial communities dwelling verso (front) recto (back) sides of a 17th century easel painting attributed Carlo Bononi, Italian artist first Baroque period. Cultivable bacteria fungi colonizing were isolated...
The biodeterioration process involves every type of Cultural Heritage item, including monuments, stoneworks, frescoes, and easel paintings. accurate study the microbial fungal communities dwelling on artworks, involved in their deterioration, is essential for adoption optimal prevention conservation strategies. Conventional restorative methods, that usually involve chemical physical technologies, present some disadvantages, short-term unsatisfactory effects, potential damage to treated...
Indoor air quality (IAQ) plays a vital role in supporting both the physical and mental well-being of individuals enclosed spaces, mechanical ventilation systems has gained increasing attention due to building design’s focus on energy efficiency thus airtight constructions. This study investigated pre–post effects installing heat recovery system (MVHR) indoor high school classroom Ferrara, Italy. The analysis focused experimental measurements temperature (T), relative humidity (RH), carbon...
The indoor microbiome is a dynamic ecosystem including pathogens that can impact human health. In this regard, the school environment represents main living space of humans for many years, and an unhealthy significantly condition students’ School rooms suffer from insufficient ventilation use building materials may favor pathogen contamination, mostly sanitized by conventional chemical-based methods, which pollution, have temporary effects, induce selection antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in...
The hospital environment significantly contributes to the onset of healthcare associated infections (HAIs), representing most frequent and severe complications related health care. monitoring surfaces is generally addressed by microbial cultural isolation, with some performance limitations. Hence there need implement environmental surveillance systems using more effective methods. This study aimed evaluate next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies for microbiome characterization, in...
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) represents a major threat to public health, especially in the hospital environment, and massive use of disinfectants prevent COVID-19 transmission might intensify this risk, possibly leading future AMR pandemics. However, control microbial contamination is crucial hospitals, since microbiomes can cause healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), which are particularly frequent severe pediatric wards due children having high susceptibility.We have previously...
Microbial contamination in the hospital environment is a major concern for public health, since it significantly contributes to onset of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), which are further complicated by alarming level antimicrobial resistance (AMR) HAI-associated pathogens. Chemical disinfection control bioburden has temporary effect and can favor selection resistant pathogens, as observed during COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, probiotic-based sanitation (probiotic cleaning hygiene...
Summary Persistent contamination of hospital surfaces and antimicrobial resistance ( AMR ) is recognized as major causes healthcare‐associated infections HAI ). We recently showed that probiotic‐based sanitation PCHS can stably decrease surface pathogens reduce s. However, action slow non‐specific. By contrast, bacteriophages have been proposed a decontamination method they rapidly attack specific targets, but their routine application has never tested. Here, we analysed the feasibility...
Beach sand may act as a reservoir for potential human pathogens, posing public health risk. Despite this, the microbiological monitoring of microbiome is rarely performed to determine beach quality. In this study, microbial population Northern Adriatic Sea was profiled by (CFU counts) and molecular methods (WGS, microarray), showing significant presence pathogens including drug-resistant strains. Consistent with these results, quicklime restoring method tested in vitro on-field. Collected...
Coastal lagoons are transitional ecosystems located on the border between land and sea characterized by strong environmental fluctuations which affect physiological ecological adaptations of living species. The quality lagoon ecosystem depends balance chemical-physical components (water salinity, temperature, water-dissolved oxygen, high productivity, reduced hydrodynamics) biological processes that define complexity trophic chain. All these factors strongly influenced human activities cause...