Fecal pollution indicators are essential to identify and remediate contamination sources and
protect public health. Historically, easily cultured facultative anaerobes such as fecal …

Microbial source tracking (MST) endeavors to determine sources of fecal pollution in
environmental waters by capitalizing on the association of certain microorganisms with the …

Multiple factors modulate microbial community assembly in the vertebrate gut, though
studies disagree as to their relative contribution. One cause may be a reliance on captive …

Abstract Nitrate (NO 3-) pollution adversely impacts surface and groundwater quality. In
recent decades, many countries have implemented measures to control and reduce …

Identifying the origin of fecal contamination can support more effective interventions to
interrupt enteric pathogen transmission. Microbial source tracking (MST) assays may help to …

The aquatic microbiota is known to be an important factor in the sustainability of the natural
water ecosystems. However, the microbial community also might include pathogens, which …

In recent decades, considerable effort has been devoted to finding microbial source‐tracking
(MST) markers that are suitable to assess the health risks of faecally polluted waters, with no …

The objective of this review is to assess the current state of knowledge of pathogens,
general faecal indicators and human‐specific microbial source tracking markers in sewage …

More than 50% of the world's population lives in urban centers. As collection basins for
landscape activity, urban waters are an interface between human activity and the natural …

Numerous bacterial genetic markers are available for the molecular detection of human
sources of fecal pollution in environmental waters. However, widespread application is …