Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater: Methods optimization and quality control are crucial for generating reliable public health information

W Ahmed, A Bivins, PM Bertsch, K Bibby… - Current opinion in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Monitoring for SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater through the process of wastewater-
based epidemiology provides an additional surveillance tool, contributing to community …

CrAssphage as an indicator of human-fecal contamination in water environment and virus reduction in wastewater treatment

MA Sabar, R Honda, E Haramoto - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Viral indicators of human-fecal contamination in wastewaters and environmental waters
have been getting much attention in the past decade. Cross-assembly phage (crAssphage) …

Enterococci in the environment

MN Byappanahalli, MB Nevers, A Korajkic… - Microbiology and …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
Enterococci are common, commensal members of gut communities in mammals and birds,
yet they are also opportunistic pathogens that cause millions of human and animal infections …

Tools for interpretation of wastewater SARS-CoV-2 temporal and spatial trends demonstrated with data collected in the San Francisco Bay Area

HD Greenwald, LC Kennedy, A Hinkle, ON Whitney… - Water research X, 2021 - Elsevier
Wastewater surveillance for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-
2) RNA can be integrated with COVID-19 case data to inform timely pandemic response …

Microbial source tracking markers for detection of fecal contamination in environmental waters: relationships between pathogens and human health outcomes

VJ Harwood, C Staley, BD Badgley… - FEMS microbiology …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Microbial source tracking (MST) describes a suite of methods and an investigative strategy
for determination of fecal pollution sources in environmental waters that rely on the …

[HTML][HTML] Enterococci as indicators of environmental fecal contamination

AB Boehm, LM Sassoubre - 2014 - europepmc.org
Enterococci are found in high concentrations in human feces, usually between 104 and 106
bacteria per gram wet weight (Layton, Walters, Lam, & Boehm, 2010; Slanetz & Bartley …

Case–control study of microbiological etiology associated with calf diarrhea

YI Cho, JI Han, C Wang, V Cooper, K Schwartz… - Veterinary …, 2013 - Elsevier
Calf diarrhea is a major economic burden for the US cattle industry. A variety of infectious
agents are implicated in calf diarrhea and co-infection of multiple pathogens is not …

Performance of forty-one microbial source tracking methods: a twenty-seven lab evaluation study

AB Boehm, LC Van De Werfhorst, JF Griffith… - Water research, 2013 - Elsevier
The last decade has seen development of numerous new microbial source tracking (MST)
methodologies, but many of these have been tested in just a few laboratories with a limited …

Discovering new indicators of fecal pollution

SL McLellan, AM Eren - Trends in microbiology, 2014 - cell.com
Fecal pollution indicators are essential to identify and remediate contamination sources and
protect public health. Historically, easily cultured facultative anaerobes such as fecal …

Evaluation of genetic markers from the 16S rRNA gene V2 region for use in quantitative detection of selected Bacteroidales species and human fecal waste by qPCR

RA Haugland, M Varma, M Sivaganesan… - Systematic and applied …, 2010 - Elsevier
Molecular methods for quantifying defined Bacteroidales species from the human
gastrointestinal tract may have important clinical and environmental applications, ranging …