Maintenance of the microbiological quality and safety of water systems used for drinking, for
recreating, and in the harvesting of seafood is imperative, as contamination of these systems …

Fecal source tracking is used because standard methods of measuring fecal contamination
in water by enumerating fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) do not identify the sources of the …

In response to the emergence of pathogenic bacteria that cannot be treated with current
antibiotics, many researchers are revisiting the use of bacteriophages, or phages, to fight …

Here we present the first metagenomic analyses of an uncultured viral community from
human feces, using partial shotgun sequencing. Most of the sequences were unrelated to …

Bacteriophages are an attractive alternative to faecal indicator bacteria (FIB), particularly as
surrogates of enteric virus fate and transport, due to their closer morphological and …

Phages are valuable models or surrogates for enteric viruses because they share many
fundamental properties and features. Among these are structure, composition, morphology …

Several microbes and chemicals have been considered as potential tracers to identify fecal
sources in the environment. However, to date, no one approach has been shown to …

Somatic coliphages, F-specific RNA bacteriophages, bacteriophages infecting Bacteroides
fragilis, Escherichia coli and enterococci were counted in bathing waters in the late spring …

Public concern over polluted water is a major environmental issue worldwide. Microbial
contamination of water arguably represents the most significant risk to human health on a …

Aims: To assess whether the distribution of genotypes of F‐specific RNA bacteriophages
reflects faecal pollution of human and animal origin in water environments. Methods and …