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 …

Diversity and population structure of sewage‐derived microorganisms in wastewater treatment plant influent

SL McLellan, SM Huse… - Environmental …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The release of untreated sewage introduces non‐indigenous microbial populations of
uncertain composition into surface waters. We used massively parallel 454 pyrosequencing …

Enterococcus species distribution among human and animal hosts using multiplex PCR

BA Layton, SP Walters, LH Lam… - Journal of applied …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Aims: This study evaluated the use of Enterococcus species differentiation as a tool for
microbial source tracking (MST) in recreational waters. Methods and Results: Avian …

State of the art molecular markers for fecal pollution source tracking in water

P Roslev, AS Bukh - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2011 - Springer
Most environmental waters are susceptible to fecal contamination from animal and/or human
pollution sources. To attenuate or eliminate such contamination, it is often critical that the …

Molecular indicators used in the development of predictive models for microbial source tracking

E Ballesté, X Bonjoch, LA Belanche… - Applied and …, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT A number of chemical, microbial, and eukaryotic indicators have been proposed
as indicators of fecal pollution sources in water bodies. No single one of the indicators tested …

Antibiotic resistance genes and virulence factors in Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis from diseased farm animals: pigs, cattle and poultry

V Seputiene, A Bogdaite, M Ruzauskas… - Polish journal of …, 2012 - agro.icm.edu.pl
Eighty enterococcal isolates (E. faecium, n= 38, E. faecalis, n= 42) from diseased farm
animals (swine, cattle, poultry) in Lithuania have been studied for the prevalence of …

Application of a microbial and pathogen source tracking toolbox to identify infrastructure problems in stormwater drainage networks: a case study

LR Carson, C Goodman, B van Duin… - Microbiology …, 2024 - journals.asm.org
Water scarcity and increasing urbanization are forcing municipalities to consider alternative
water sources, such as stormwater, to fill in water supply gaps or address hydromodification …

Frequent detection of a human fecal indicator in the urban ocean: environmental drivers and covariation with enterococci

WC Jennings, EC Chern, D O'Donohue… - … Science: Processes & …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Fecal pollution of surface waters presents a global human health threat. New molecular
indicators of fecal pollution have been developed to address shortcomings of traditional …

Evaluation of rapid methods and novel indicators for assessing microbiological beach water quality

JF Griffith, Y Cao, CD McGee, SB Weisberg - Water research, 2009 - Elsevier
A broad suite of new measurement methods and indicators based on molecular
measurement technology have been developed to assess beach water quality, but they …