How complex travel, tourism, and transportation networks influence infectious disease movement in a borderless world

S Sönmez, J Wiitala… - Handbook of globalisation …, 2019 - elgaronline.com
… Transportation networks include the worldwide air transportation network, global cargo ship
… – notably identification of causative microorganisms and the biology of disease pathology – …

Trade exports predict regional ballast water discharge by ships in San Francisco Bay

DE Verna, MS Minton, GM Ruiz - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… , commercial ships are a dominant source of species transfers globally, and … most global
regions in space or time limits understanding of quantitative relationships between shipping and …

Pseudocochlodinium profundisulcus Resting Cysts Detected in the Ballast Tank Sediment of Ships Arriving in the Ports of China and North America and the …

L Shang, X Zhai, W Tian, Y Liu, Y Han, Y Deng… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
… a trend of spreading to other countries and regions [47,48,49]. In addition to global warming
and water eutrophication associated with human activities, phytoplankton spread by ship’s …

Sediments in the ship's ballast water tank: a problem to be solved

V Valković, J Obhođaš - Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2020 - Springer
… Ports are hubs for industrial activities and global trade. Consequently, sediments and waters
in the ports are often contaminated by an array of chemicals. In addition, sediments contain …

Biological testing of ships' ballast water indicates challenges for the implementation of the Ballast Water Management Convention

O Outinen, SA Bailey, O Casas-Monroy… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Ships’ ballast water and sediments are vectors that contribute to the unintentional spread of
aquatic non-native species globally… at minimizing the unwanted spread of organisms. This …

[PDF][PDF] Theories, vectors, and computer models: Marine invasion science in the anthropocene

P Laeseke, J Schiller, J Letschert… - YOUMARES 9-The …, 2020 - library.oapen.org
… On a global level, a positive correlation between cargo ship traffic and marine introductions
reveals the vast contribution of marine traffic to create connectivity across distant geographic …

SHIP: identifying antimicrobial resistance gene transfer between plasmids

M Teixeira, S Pillay, A Urhan, T Abeel - Bioinformatics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
… We developed SHIP, a novel method to quantify plasmid similarity based on the dynamics
of plasmid evolution. This allowed us to find conserved fragments containing AMR genes in …

[PDF][PDF] A Study on Legal Policies and Solutions for Ship Ballast Water Treatment

NVL Le, DT Nguyen, ARM Al-Tawaha… - Water Conserv …, 2021 - researchgate.net
… , such as plants, viruses microorganism, and bacteria, after that may … spread of aquatic
organisms (Wang et al., 2020). In this research, the solution of integrated shipping cost and global

Microorganisms as shapers of human civilization, from pandemics to even our genomes: villains or friends? A Historical approach

F Rodríguez-Frías, J Quer, D Tabernero, MF Cortese… - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
… other routes such as traveling by ship to the East by sailing West. … planet on it, the masts of
the ships when moving away, etc.) … infected individuals and the global spread of the virus, new …

Ecological impacts of ballast water loading and discharge: insight into the toxicity and accumulation of disinfection by-products

SB Kurniawan, DSA Pambudi, MM Ahmad, BD Alfanda… - Heliyon, 2022 - cell.com
ship to assist the ship in adjusting the trim, fixing the list, controlling draught, and maintaining
stability or hull stresses on the ship … carried foreign macroorganisms, microorganisms, and …