Pepper mild mottle virus as a water quality indicator

M Kitajima, HP Sassi, JR Torrey - NPJ Clean Water, 2018 - nature.com
Pepper mild mottle virus (PMMoV) was recently found to be the most abundant RNA virus in
human feces, and is a plant virus belonging to the genus Tobamovirus in the family …

Fecal pollution source tracking toolbox for identification, evaluation and characterization of fecal contamination in receiving urban surface waters and groundwater

NH Tran, KYH Gin, HH Ngo - Science of the Total Environment, 2015 - Elsevier
The quality of surface waters/groundwater of a geographical region can be affected by
anthropogenic activities, land use patterns and fecal pollution sources from humans and …

Review of slow sand filtration for raw water treatment with potential application in less-developed countries

K Abdiyev, S Azat, E Kuldeyev, D Ybyraiymkul… - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
Providing safe drinking water to people in developing countries is an urgent worldwide
water problem and a main issue in the UN Sustainable Development Goals. One of the most …

A Systematic Review of Culture-Based Methods for Monitoring Antibiotic-Resistant Acinetobacter, Aeromonas, and Pseudomonas as Environmentally Relevant …

EG Milligan, J Calarco, BC Davis, IM Keenum… - Current Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Mounting evidence indicates that habitats such as wastewater
and environmental waters are pathways for the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) …

Virus reduction during advanced bardenpho and conventional wastewater treatment processes

BW Schmitz, M Kitajima, ME Campillo… - … science & technology, 2016 - ACS Publications
The present study investigated wastewater treatment for the removal of 11 different virus
types (pepper mild mottle virus; Aichi virus; genogroup I, II, and IV noroviruses; enterovirus; …

Landscape, water quality, and weather factors associated with an increased likelihood of foodborne pathogen contamination of New York streams used to source …

D Weller, A Belias, H Green, S Roof… - Frontiers in sustainable …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
There is a need for science-based tools to (i) help manage microbial produce safety hazards
associated with preharvest surface water use, and (ii) facilitate comanagement of …

[HTML][HTML] From capture to detection: A critical review of passive sampling techniques for pathogen surveillance in water and wastewater

EK Hayes, GA Gagnon - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Water quality, critical for human survival and well-being, necessitates rigorous control to
mitigate contamination risks, particularly from pathogens amid expanding urbanization …

[HTML][HTML] Persistence of emerging viral fecal indicators in large-scale freshwater mesocosms

J Greaves, D Stone, Z Wu, K Bibby - Water Research X, 2020 - Elsevier
Fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) are typically used to monitor microbial water quality but are
poor representatives of viruses due to different environmental fate. Viral fecal indicators …

Are indicator microorganisms predictive of pathogens in water?

L Richiardi, C Pignata, E Fea, S Bonetta, E Carraro - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
The microbiological quality assessment of drinking water (DW) and drinking water sources
(DWSs) is based on the detection of indicator microorganisms (IMs). However, the …

Dynamics of crAssphage as a human source tracking marker in potentially faecally polluted environments

E Ballesté, M Pascual-Benito, J Martín-Díaz, AR Blanch… - Water research, 2019 - Elsevier
Recent studies have shown that crAssphage is abundant in human faecal samples
worldwide. It has thus been postulated as a potential microbial source tracking (MST) marker …