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John Poté is affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland and has made significant contributions in the field of Environmental Science, with 53 publications focused on various subfields.

Their research extensively covers topics such as:

  • Heavy metals in the environment
  • Pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts
  • Water quality and pollution assessment
  • Child nutrition and water access
  • Fecal contamination and water quality
  • Healthcare and environmental waste management
  • Antibiotic resistance in bacteria

Poté's work appears frequently in well-known publication venues including:

  • Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • Watershed Ecology and the Environment
  • Environmental Challenges
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Sustainable Water Resources Management

Research papers associated with Poté reflect a focus on environmental pollutants and public health risks:

  • Pharmaceutical pollution of the world's rivers, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Extracellular DNA (eDNA): Neglected and Potential Sources of Antibiotic Resistant Genes (ARGs) in the Aquatic Environments, 2020, Pathogens
  • Evaluation of heavy metal content and potential ecological risks in soil samples from wild solid waste dumpsites in developing country under tropical conditions, 2022, Environmental Challenges
  • Hospital wastewaters: A reservoir and source of clinically relevant bacteria and antibiotic resistant genes dissemination in urban river under tropical conditions, 2020, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
  • Occurrence of organic micropollutants and human health risk assessment based on consumption of Amaranthus viridis, Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment

Frequent co-authors working with Poté include:

  • Crispin K. Mulaji
  • Periyasamy Sivalingam
  • Emmanuel K. Atibu
  • Fernando P. Carvalho
  • Georgette N. Ngweme

Best Publications

  • Pharmaceutical pollution of the world’s rivers

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  • Composition of bacterial and archaeal communities in freshwater sediments with different contamination levels (Lake Geneva, Switzerland)

    Laurence Haller;Mauro Tonolla;Jakob Zopfi;Raffaele Peduzzi

  • Antibiotic-resistant soil bacteria in transgenic plant fields

    Sandrine Demanèche;Hervé Sanguin;John Poté;Elisabeth Navarro

  • Accumulation of clinically relevant antibiotic-resistance genes, bacterial load, and metals in freshwater lake sediments in Central Europe.

    Naresh Devarajan;Amandine Laffite;Neil D. Graham;Maria Meijer

  • Effects of a sewage treatment plant outlet pipe extension on the distribution of contaminants in the sediments of the Bay of Vidy, Lake Geneva, Switzerland.

    John Poté;Laurence Haller;Jean-Luc Loizeau;Andrea Garcia Bravo

  • Local to regional scale industrial heavy metal pollution recorded in sediments of large freshwater lakes in central Europe (lakes Geneva and Lucerne) over the last centuries.

    Florian Thevenon;Neil D. Graham;Massimo Chiaradia;Philippe Arpagaus

  • Distribution and survival of faecal indicator bacteria in the sediments of the Bay of Vidy, Lake Geneva, Switzerland

    Laurence Haller;John Poté;Jean-Luc Loizeau;Walter Wildi

  • Hospital effluents are one of several sources of metal, antibiotic resistance genes and bacterial markers disseminated in Sub-Saharan urban rivers

    Amandine Laffite;Pitchouna I. Kilunga;John M. Kayembe;Naresh Devarajan

  • Influence of Freshwater Sediment Characteristics on Persistence of Fecal Indicator Bacteria

    Laurence Haller;Essoêfli Amedegnato;John Poté;Walter Wildi

  • Leachates draining from controlled municipal solid waste landfill: Detailed geochemical characterization and toxicity tests.

    Bienvenu K. Mavakala;Séverine Le Faucheur;Crispin K. Mulaji;Amandine Laffite

  • Occurrence of Antibiotic Resistance Genes and Bacterial Markers in a Tropical River Receiving Hospital and Urban Wastewaters

    Naresh Devarajan;Amandine Laffite;Crispin Kyela Mulaji;Jean-Paul Otamonga

  • Degradation and Transformability of DNA from Transgenic Leaves

    MariaTeresa Ceccherini;John Poté;John Poté;Elisabeth Kay;Van Tran Van

  • (Pre-) historic changes in natural and anthropogenic heavy metals deposition inferred from two contrasting Swiss Alpine lakes

    Florian Thevenon;Stéphane Guédron;Massimo Chiaradia;Jean-Luc Loizeau

  • Geobacteraceae are important members of mercury-methylating microbial communities of sediments impacted by waste water releases.

    Andrea Garcia Bravo;Jakob Zopfi;Moritz Buck;Jingying Xu

  • A high-resolution historical sediment record of nutrients, trace elements and organochlorines (DDT and PCB) deposition in a drinking water reservoir (Lake Brêt, Switzerland) points at local and regional pollutant sources

    Florian Thevenon;Luiz Felippe de Alencastro;Jean-Luc Loizeau;Thierry Adatte

  • Fate and transport of antibiotic resistance genes in saturated soil columns

    John Poté;John Poté;Maria Teresa Ceccherini;Van Tran Van;Walter Rosselli

  • Antibiotic resistant bacteria/genes dissemination in lacustrine sediments highly increased following cultural eutrophication of Lake Geneva (Switzerland).

    Florian Thevenon;Thierry Adatte;Walter Wildi;John Poté

  • Accumulation of toxic metals and organic micro-pollutants in sediments from tropical urban rivers, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

    Pitchouna I. Kilunga;Periyasamy Sivalingam;Amandine Laffite;Dominique Grandjean

  • Persistence and growth of faecal culturable bacterial indicators in water column and sediments of Vidy Bay, Lake Geneva, Switzerland

    John Pote;Laurence Haller;Régis Kottelat;Vincent Sastre

  • Trace metals and persistent organic pollutants in sediments from river-reservoir systems in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): Spatial distribution and potential ecotoxicological effects

    Paola M. Mwanamoki;Naresh Devarajan;Florian Thevenon;Niane Birane

  • Antibiotic resistant Pseudomonas spp. in the aquatic environment: A prevalence study under tropical and temperate climate conditions

    Naresh Devarajan;Thilo Köhler;Periyasamy Sivalingam;Christian van Delden

Frequent Co-Authors

Walter Wildi
Walter Wildi University of Geneva
Kandasamy Prabakar
Kandasamy Prabakar Pusan National University
Thierry Adatte
Thierry Adatte University of Lausanne
Massimo Chiaradia
Massimo Chiaradia University of Geneva
Timothy M. Vogel
Timothy M. Vogel École Centrale de Lyon
Jakob Zopfi
Jakob Zopfi University of Basel
Vera I. Slaveykova
Vera I. Slaveykova University of Geneva
Robert Moritz
Robert Moritz University of Geneva
Bastiaan Willem Ibelings
Bastiaan Willem Ibelings University of Geneva
Paolo Nannipieri
Paolo Nannipieri University of Florence

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