A short review of fecal indicator bacteria in tropical aquatic ecosystems: knowledge gaps and future directions

E Rochelle-Newall, TMH Nguyen, TPQ Le… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Given the high numbers of deaths and the debilitating nature of diseases caused by the use
of unclean water it is imperative that we have an understanding of the factors that control the …

Abundance and distribution of enteric bacteria and viruses in coastal and estuarine sediments—A review

F Hassard, CL Gwyther, K Farkas, A Andrews… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The long term survival of fecal indicator organisms (FIOs) and human pathogenic
microorganisms in sediments is important from a water quality, human health and ecological …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the origin of bacteria in tap water and distribution system in an unchlorinated drinking water system by SourceTracker using microbial community …

G Liu, Y Zhang, E van der Mark, A Magic-Knezev… - Water Research, 2018 - Elsevier
The general consensus is that the abundance of tap water bacteria is greatly influenced by
water purification and distribution. Those bacteria that are released from biofilm in the …

Fecal source identification using random forest

A Roguet, AM Eren, RJ Newton, SL McLellan - Microbiome, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Background Clostridiales and Bacteroidales are uniquely adapted to the gut
environment and have co-evolved with their hosts resulting in convergent microbiome …

Into the deep: evaluation of SourceTracker for assessment of faecal contamination of coastal waters

R Henry, C Schang, S Coutts, P Kolotelo, T Prosser… - Water research, 2016 - Elsevier
Faecal contamination of recreational waters is an increasing global health concern. Tracing
the source of the contaminant is a vital step towards mitigation and disease prevention. Total …

Water quality risks in the Murray-Darling basin

SG Beavis, VNL Wong, LM Mosley… - … Journal of Water …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Management of water resources in the Murray-Darling Basin has historically focussed on
water security and the allocation of water for users with competing needs. This focus was …

Application of SourceTracker for accurate identification of fecal pollution in recreational freshwater: a double-blinded study

C Staley, T Kaiser, A Lobos, W Ahmed… - … science & technology, 2018 - ACS Publications
The efficacy of SourceTracker software to attribute contamination from a variety of fecal
sources spiked into ambient freshwater samples was investigated. Double-blinded samples …

A high-throughput DNA-sequencing approach for determining sources of fecal bacteria in a lake superior estuary

CM Brown, C Staley, P Wang, B Dalzell… - … science & technology, 2017 - ACS Publications
Current microbial source-tracking (MST) methods, employed to determine sources of fecal
contamination in waterways, use molecular markers targeting host-associated bacteria in …

Fecal pollution: new trends and challenges in microbial source tracking using next‐generation sequencing

T Unno, C Staley, CM Brown, D Han… - Environmental …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In this minireview, we expand upon traditional microbial source tracking (MST) methods by
discussing two recently developed, next‐generation‐sequencing (NGS)‐based MST …

A comparative assessment of conventional and molecular methods, including MinION nanopore sequencing, for surveying water quality

K Acharya, S Khanal, K Pantha, N Amatya… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Nucleic acid based techniques, such as quantitative PCR (qPCR) and next generation
sequencing (NGS), provide new insights into microbial water quality, but considerable …