Microbial indicators of fecal pollution: recent progress and challenges in assessing water quality

DA Holcomb, JR Stewart - Current environmental health reports, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Fecal contamination of water is a major public health concern.
This review summarizes recent developments and advancements in water quality indicators …

Current and Future Advances in the Detection and Surveillance of Biosecurity-Relevant Equine Bacterial Diseases Using Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification …

A Knox, G Zerna, T Beddoe - Animals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Bacterial infections continue to cause ongoing health problems in the
global equine industry, resulting in substantial loss of valuable economic contributions …

[HTML][HTML] Integrating culture-based and molecular methods provides an improved assessment of microbial quality in a coastal lagoon

M Basili, L Perini, L Zaggia, GM Luna, GM Quero - Environmental Pollution, 2023 - Elsevier
Faecal pollution in aquatic environments is a worldwide public health concern, yet the
reliability and comprehensiveness of the methods used to assess faecal contamination are …

[HTML][HTML] Occurrence of human-associated Bacteroidetes genetic source tracking markers in raw and treated wastewater of municipal and domestic origin and …

RE Mayer, S Bofill-Mas, L Egle, GH Reischer… - Water research, 2016 - Elsevier
This was a detailed investigation of the seasonal occurrence, dynamics, removal and
resistance of human-associated genetic Bacteroidetes faecal markers (GeBaM) compared …

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 …

Portable platform for rapid in-field identification of human fecal pollution in water

YS Jiang, TE Riedel, JA Popoola, BR Morrow, S Cai… - Water research, 2018 - Elsevier
Human fecal contamination of water is a public health risk. However, inadequate testing
solutions frustrate timely, actionable monitoring. Bacterial culture-based methods are simple …

A colorimetric detection of microRNA-148a in gastric cancer by gold nanoparticle–RNA conjugates

J Cai, L Ding, P Gong, J Huang - Nanotechnology, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
For the early diagnosis of gastric cancer, microRNA-148a (miRNA-148a) as a promising
biomarker is measured by a simple colorimetric biosensor due to its unique surface plasmon …

Performance evaluation of Bacteroidales genetic markers for human and animal microbial source tracking in tropical agricultural watersheds

P Somnark, N Chyerochana, S Mongkolsuk… - Environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
Microbial source tracking (MST) DNA-based assays have been used to successfully solve
fecal pollution problems in many countries, particularly in developed nations. However, their …

Producing molecular biology reagents without purification

S Bhadra, V Nguyen, JA Torres, S Kar, S Fadanka… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
We recently developed 'cellular'reagents–lyophilized bacteria overexpressing proteins of
interest–that can replace commercial pure enzymes in typical diagnostic and molecular …

Microbial source tracking using metagenomics and other new technologies

S Raza, J Kim, MJ Sadowsky, T Unno - Journal of Microbiology, 2021 - Springer
The environment is under siege from a variety of pollution sources. Fecal pollution is
especially harmful as it disperses pathogenic bacteria into waterways. Unraveling origins of …