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Published in final edited form as: Crit Rev Toxicol. 2015 Nov 13;45(10):813–836. doi: 10.3109/10408444.2015.1065471

Table 8.

Studies examining direct effects of pesticides on bacteria.

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Pesticide
Category
Pesticide Group Pesticides Used Pesticide
Concentration
(µg L−1)
Ecologically
Relevant
Matrix Focal Microbes Direction
of Effect
Reference
Insecticide carbamate carbaryl 9400000 N Lab Culture E. coli O157:H7, Salmonella typhimurium, Sal. enteritidis, Shigella sonnei, S. flexneri, Listeria moncytogenes (Guan, Blank et al. 2001)
carbamate carbaryl 5000 N Lab Culture Vibrio phosphoreum (Somasundaram, Coats et al. 1990)
carbamate carbaryl 100000 N Estuarine Mesocosms sediment bacteria (Weber and Rosenberg, 1984)
carbamate carbofuran 20500 Y Lab Culture Vibrio phosphoreum (Somasundaram, Coats et al. 1990)
organochlorine lindane 500–500000 N Rumen Fluid Microcosms rumen bacteria Neutral (Williams, Robbins et al, 1963)
organophosphate chlorpyrifos 6600000 N Lab Culture E. coli O157:H7, Salmonella typhimurium, Sal. enteritidis, Shigella sonnei, S. flexneri, Listeria monocytogenes + (Guan, Blank et al. 2001)
organophosphate chlorpyrifos 46300 N Lab Culture Vibrio phosphoreum (Somasundaram, Coats et al. 1990)
organophosphate diazinon 14600000 N Lab Culture E. coli O157:H7, Salmonella typhimurium, Sal. enteritidis, Shigella sonnei, S. flexneri, Listeria monocytogenes (Guan, Blank et al. 2001)
organophosphate diazinon 0.005 Y Lab Culture Eshcerichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae Neutral (Higgins and Hohn 2008)
organophosphate diazinon 10300 N Lab Culture Vibrio phosphoreum (Somasundaram, Coats et al. 1990)
organophosphate diazinon 500 – 500000 Y Rumen Fluid Microcosms rumen bacteria Neutral (Williams, Robbins et al. 1963)
organophosphate dimethoate 14800000 N Lab Culture E. coli O157:H7, Salmonella typhimurium, Sal. enteritidis, Shigella sonnei, S. flexneri, Listeria moncytogenes (Guan, Blank et al. 2001)
organophosphate dimethoate 500 – 500000 N Rumen Fluid Microcosms rumen bacteria Neutral (Williams, Robbins et al. 1963)
organophosphate malathion Unknown Unknown Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis Neutral (Kerszman 1993)
organophosphate malathion 500 N Sludge Chamber Microcosms heterotrophic bacteria (Pai, Wang et al. 2009)
organophosphate malathion 101, 202 Y Freshwater Mesocosms Escherichia coli. Enterococcus faecalis Neutral (Staley, Rohr et al. 2010)
organophosphate malathion 101, 202 Y Freshwater Mesocosms Eschericia coli, E. coli O157:H7, Salmonella typhimurium, Enterococcus faecalis Neutral (Staley, Senkbeil et al. 2012)
organophosphate parathion 8500 N Lab Culture Vibrio phosphoreum (Somasundaram, Coats et al. 1990)
pyrethroid permethrin 1000000 N Lab Culture E. coli O157:H7, Salmonella typhimurium, Sal. enteritidis, Shigella sonnei, S. flexneri, Listeria moncytogenes + (Guan, Blank et al. 2001)
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Herbicide bipyrimidine diquat 25000–50000 N Lab Culture Erwinia carotovora, Pseudomonas fluorescens, Bacillus sp. Neutral (Breazeale and Camper 1972)
bipyrimidine paraquat 25000–50000 N Lab Culture Erwinia carotovora, Pseudomonas fluorescens, Bacillus sp. Neutral (Breazeale and Camper 1972)
bipyrimidine paraquat 20000000 N Lab Culture E. coli O157:H7, Salmonella typhimurium, Sal. enteritidis, Shigella sonnei, S. flexneri, Listeria moncytogenes - (Guan, Blank et al. 2001)
glyphosate glyphosate 13400000 N Lab Culture E. coli O157:H7, Salmonella typhimurium, Sal. enteritidis, Shigella sonnei, S. flexneri, Listeria moncytogenes - (Guan, Blank et al. 2001)
glyphosate glyphosate 500 Y Sludge Chamber Microcosms heterotrophic bacteria - (Pai, Wang et al. 2009)
phenoxy 2,4-D 31400000 N Lab Culture E. coli O157:H7, Salmonella typhimurium, Sal. enteritidis, Shigella sonnei, S. flexneri, Listeria moncytogenes - (Guan, Blank et al. 2001)
phenoxy 2,4-D 5 and 10mM Lab Culture Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae - (Higgins and Hohn 2008)
phenoxy 2,4-D 100700 N Lab Culture Vibrio phosphoreum - (Somasundaram, Coats et al. 1990)
s-triazine atrazine 25000 – 50000 N Lab Culture Erwinia carotovora, Pseudomonas fluorescens, Bacillus sp. Neutral (Breazeale and Camper 1972)
s-triazine atrazine 0.25 – 22.5 Y Lab Culture Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae Neutral (Higgins and Hohn 2008)
s-triazine atrazine 1 – 100 Y Lab Culture Escherichia coli, Enterococcus faecalis + (Koutsotoli, Dimou et al. 2005)
s-triazine atrazine 102, 204 Y Freshwater Microcosms Escherichia coli, E. coli O157:H7, Salmonella typhimurium, Enterococcus faecalis Neutral (Staley, Senkbeil et al. 2012)
s-triazine siniazine 0.000025 – 0.0025 Y Lab Culture Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae Neutral (Higgins and Hohn 2008)
substituted urea chlorotoluron 68200 N Lab Culture Vibrio fisherii - (Nelieu Bonnemoy, et al., 2010
substituted urea linuron 22600000 N Lab Culture E. coli O157:H7, Salmonella typhimurium, Sal. enteritidis, Shigella sonnei, S. flexneri, Listeria moncytogenes + (Guan, Blank et al. 2001)

Fungicide aromatic chlorothalonil 20000000 N Lab Culture E. coli O157:H7, Salmonella typhimurium, Sal. enteritidis, Shigella sonnei, S. flexneri, Listeria moncytogenes + (Guan, Blank et al. 2001)
aromatic chlorothalonil 169, 338 Y Freshwater Microcosms Eschericia coli, E. coli O157:H7, Salmonella typhimurium, Enterococcus faecalis Neutral (Staley, Senkbeil et al. 2012)
aromatic dicloran 0.14 Y Unknown Salmonella YG1041 - (de Oliviera, Sakagami et al. 2009)
carbamate thiram 13400000 N Lab Culture E. coli O157:H7, Salmonella typhimurium, Sal. enteritidis, Shigella sonnei, S. flexneri, Listeria moncytogenes - (Guan, Blank et al. 2001)
carbamate thiram 3000 – 70000 N Freshwater Mesocosms sediment bacteria - (Milenkovski, Baath et al. 2010)
dicarboximide captan 3000 – 70000 N Freshwater Mesocosms sediment bacteria - (Milenkovski, Baath et al. 2010)
hydrochloride acriflavine 1000 N Lab Culture Staphylococcus aureus - (Kawai and Yamagishi 2009)
morpholine fenpropimorph 3000 – 70000 N Freshwater Mesocosms sediment bacteria - (Milenkovski, Baath et al. 2010)
triazole propiconazole 3000 – 70000 N Freshwater Mesocosms sediment bacteria - (Milenkovski, Baath et al. 2010)