Quantification of pathogens and markers of fecal contamination during storm events along popular surfing beaches in San Diego, California

JA Steele, AD Blackwood, JF Griffith, RT Noble… - Water research, 2018 - Elsevier
Along southern California beaches, the concentrations of fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) used
to quantify the potential presence of fecal contamination in coastal recreational waters have …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Microbial source tracking of untreated human wastewater and animal scats in urbanized estuarine waters

W Ahmed, S Payyappat, M Cassidy, N Harrison… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
The study assessed the performance characteristics of host sensitivity, host specificity and
concentration for seven human wastewater-and six animal scat-associated marker genes by …

[HTML][HTML] Human and animal fecal contamination of community water sources, stored drinking water and hands in rural India measured with validated microbial source …

A Schriewer, M Odagiri, S Wuertz… - The American journal …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We examined pathways of exposure to fecal contamination of human and animal origin in
24 villages in Odisha, India. In a cross-sectional study during the monsoon season, fecal …

Selection of a diagnostic tool for microbial water quality monitoring and management of faecal contamination of water sources in rural communities

A Murei, I Kamika, MNB Momba - Science of the Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
The aim of the current study was to evaluate, validate and select microbial water quality
monitoring tools to establish their suitability and feasibility for use in rural communities. The …

US recreational water quality criteria: a vision for the future

RS Fujioka, HM Solo-Gabriele, MN Byappanahalli… - 2015 - mdpi.com
This manuscript evaluates the US Recreational Water Quality Criteria (RWQC) of 2012,
based upon discussions during a conference held 11–13 March 2013, in Honolulu, Hawaii …

CrAssphage as a potential human sewage marker for microbial source tracking in Southeast Asia

A Kongprajug, S Mongkolsuk… - … Science & Technology …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The human gut bacteriophage crAssphage has been proposed as a human-specific
microbial source tracking (MST) marker for impacted water bodies. However, its global use …

Quantification of microbial source tracking and pathogenic bacterial markers in water and sediments of Tiaoxi River (Taihu Watershed)

KK Vadde, AJ McCarthy, R Rong, R Sekar - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Taihu Lake is one of the largest freshwater lakes in China, serving as an important source of
drinking water;> 60% of source water to this lake is provided by the Tiaoxi River. This river …

[HTML][HTML] Validation of Bacteroidales quantitative PCR assays targeting human and animal fecal contamination in the public and domestic domains in India

M Odagiri, A Schriewer, K Hanley, S Wuertz… - Science of the total …, 2015 - Elsevier
We compared host-associated Bacteroidales qPCR assays developed in the continental
United States and Europe for the purpose of measuring the effect of improved sanitation on …

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 …