Critical evaluation of CrAssphage as a molecular marker for human-derived wastewater contamination in the aquatic environment

K Farkas, EM Adriaenssens, DI Walker… - Food and Environmental …, 2019 - Springer
The discharge of human-derived wastewater represents a major threat to water quality with
the potential for waterborne disease outbreaks mainly associated with enteric viruses. To …

Performance evaluation of human-specific viral markers and application of pepper mild mottle virus and crAssphage to environmental water samples as fecal pollution …

B Malla, R Ghaju Shrestha, S Tandukar… - Food and Environmental …, 2019 - Springer
Monitoring of environmental water is crucial to protecting humans and animals from possible
health risks. Although numerous human-specific viral markers have been designed to track …

Intraday variability of indicator and pathogenic viruses in 1-h and 24-h composite wastewater samples: implications for wastewater-based epidemiology

W Ahmed, A Bivins, PM Bertsch, K Bibby… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
We monitored the concentration of indicator viruses crAssphage and pepper mild mottle
virus (PMMoV) and human pathogen adenovirus (HAdV) in influent from a wastewater …

Activity-and gene-based quantification of enteric viruses, F-specific RNA phage genogroups, pepper mild mottle virus, and Escherichia coli in surface water

A Hata, Y Meuchi, M Liu, S Torii, H Katayama - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is widely applied for the monitoring of pathogenic viruses
in water environments. To date, several pretreatments to selectively detect genes from …

Comparison of viral concentration techniques for native fecal indicators and pathogens from wastewater

D North, K Bibby - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Viral pathogens are typically dilute in environmental waters, necessitating a concentration
step prior to subsequent quantification or analysis. Historically, studies on viral concentration …

Temporal and spatial relationships of CrAssphage and enteric viral and bacterial pathogens in wastewater in North Carolina

H Wu, MAI Juel, S Eytcheson, TG Aw, M Munir… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Enteric disease remains one of the most common concerns for public health, particularly
when it results from human exposure to surface and recreational waters contaminated with …

Somatic coliphage families as potential indicators of enteric viruses in water and methods for their detection

HS Lee - 2009 - cdr.lib.unc.edu
The potential use of specific somatic coliphage taxonomic groups as viral indicators on the
basis of their persistence and prevalence in water was investigated. Representative type …

Application of crAssphage, F-RNA phage and pepper mild mottle virus as indicators of human faecal and norovirus contamination in shellfish

P Gyawali, M Devane, P Scholes, J Hewitt - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Shellfish growing waters contaminated with inadequately treated human wastewater is a
major source of norovirus in shellfish and poses a significant human health risk to …

Microbial source tracking in shellfish harvesting waters in the Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica

EM Symonds, S Young, ME Verbyla… - Water research, 2017 - Elsevier
Current microbial water quality monitoring is generally limited to culture-based
measurements of fecal indicator bacteria (FIB). Given the many possible sources of fecal …

Viral tools for detection of fecal contamination and microbial source tracking in wastewater from food industries and domestic sewage

ME Barrios, MDB Fernández, RV Cammarata… - Journal of virological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Alternative indicators may be more suitable than thermotolerant coliform bacteria to assess
enteric virus pollution in environmental waters and their removal from wastewaters. In this …