Water is essential to life, but many people do not have access to clean and safe drinking
water and many die of waterborne bacterial infections. In this review a general …

Infections caused by exposure to opportunistic pathogens can cause serious health
problems during recreational water use. The problem of diseases caused by microbes …

Water is one of the most important substances on earth and without it life cannot exist.
However, poor water quality in many parts of the world has increased the number of water …

Water is vital to agriculture. It is essential that the water used for the production of fresh
produce commodities be safe. Microbial pathogens are able to survive for extended periods …

The large population residing in the northern region of India surrounding Delhi mostly
depends on water of River Yamuna, a tributary of mighty Ganga for agriculture, drinking and …

Non-typhoidal salmonellosis is the most important bacterial foodborne infection causing
disease cases in humans in industrialized countries. Food from food producing animals like …

Salmonella outbreaks associated with the consumption of raw tomatoes have been
prevalent in recent years. However, sources of Salmonella contamination of tomatoes …

River Ganga is the largest river of Indian subcontinent and it originates in the state of
Uttarakhand. Because of its importance in Indian culture and dense population residing at …

Poor sanitation, poor treatments of waste water, as well as catastrophic floods introduce
pathogenic bacteria into rivers, infecting and killing many people. The goal of clean water for …

Current microbial source tracking (MST) methods for water depend on testing for fecal
indicator bacterial counts or specific marker gene sequences to identify fecal contamination …