Cross-assembly phage and pepper mild mottle virus as viral water quality monitoring tools—potential, research gaps, and way forward

A Bivins, K Crank, J Greaves, D North, Z Wu… - Current Opinion in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Microbial water quality is currently assessed by fecal indicator bacteria that are poor
representatives of viral pathogens in the environment. Viruses are predicted to account for …

Viral indicators for tracking domestic wastewater contamination in the aquatic environment

DI Walker, EM Adriaenssens, JE McDonald, LS Hillary… - Water research, 2020 - Elsevier
Waterborne enteric viruses are an emerging cause of disease outbreaks and represent a
major threat to global public health. Enteric viruses may originate from human wastewater …

Quantitative microbial risk assessment of swimming in sewage impacted waters using CrAssphage and pepper mild mottle virus in a customizable model

K Crank, S Petersen, K Bibby - Environmental science & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Fecal indicator bacteria currently employed for microbial water quality management are poor
representatives of viruses. Viral water quality indicators have recently been proposed based …

Metagenomics and the development of viral water quality tools

K Bibby, K Crank, J Greaves, X Li, Z Wu, IA Hamza… - NPJ Clean …, 2019 - nature.com
Human exposure to pathogenic viruses in environmental waters results in a significant
global disease burden. Current microbial water quality monitoring approaches, mainly …

Pepper Mild Mottle Virus as an Indicator of Fecal Pollution

K Rosario, EM Symonds, C Sinigalliano… - Applied and …, 2009 - Am Soc Microbiol
Accurate indicators of fecal pollution are needed in order to minimize public health risks
associated with wastewater contamination in recreational waters. However, the bacterial …

Pepper mild mottle virus: agricultural menace turned effective tool for microbial water quality monitoring and assessing (waste) water treatment technologies

EM Symonds, K Rosario, M Breitbart - PLoS pathogens, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Domestic wastewater pollution in environmental waters or water reuse supplies represents a
threat to public health because of high concentrations of diverse pathogens associated with …

Faecal pollution along the southeastern coast of Florida and insight into the use of pepper mild mottle virus as an indicator

EM Symonds, C Sinigalliano, M Gidley… - Journal of applied …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Aims To identify faecal pollution along the southeastern Florida coast and determine the
performance of a reverse transcription‐quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT‐qPCR) …

Pepper mild mottle virus: a plant pathogen with a greater purpose in (waste) water treatment development and public health management

EM Symonds, KH Nguyen, VJ Harwood, M Breitbart - Water research, 2018 - Elsevier
An enteric virus surrogate and reliable domestic wastewater tracer is needed to manage
microbial quality of food and water as (waste) water reuse becomes more prevalent in …

[HTML][HTML] Persistence of emerging viral fecal indicators in large-scale freshwater mesocosms

J Greaves, D Stone, Z Wu, K Bibby - Water Research X, 2020 - Elsevier
Fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) are typically used to monitor microbial water quality but are
poor representatives of viruses due to different environmental fate. Viral fecal indicators …

Pepper mild mottle virus as a water quality indicator

M Kitajima, HP Sassi, JR Torrey - NPJ Clean Water, 2018 - nature.com
Pepper mild mottle virus (PMMoV) was recently found to be the most abundant RNA virus in
human feces, and is a plant virus belonging to the genus Tobamovirus in the family …