Sunlight-mediated inactivation of health-relevant microorganisms in water: a review of mechanisms and modeling approaches

KL Nelson, AB Boehm, RJ Davies-Colley… - … Science: Processes & …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Health-relevant microorganisms present in natural surface waters and engineered treatment
systems that are exposed to sunlight can be inactivated by a complex set of interacting …

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) for assessment of microbial water quality: current progress, challenges, and future opportunities

BF Tan, C Ng, JP Nshimyimana, LL Loh… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Water quality is an emergent property of a complex system comprised of interacting
microbial populations and introduced microbial and chemical contaminants. Studies …

Characterizing the avian gut microbiota: membership, driving influences, and potential function

DW Waite, MW Taylor - Frontiers in microbiology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Birds represent a diverse and evolutionarily successful lineage, occupying a wide range of
niches throughout the world. Like all vertebrates, avians harbor diverse communities of …

Exploring the avian gut microbiota: current trends and future directions

DW Waite, MW Taylor - Frontiers in microbiology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Birds represent a diverse and evolutionarily successful lineage, occupying a wide range of
niches throughout the world. Like all vertebrates, avians harbor diverse communities of …

Tropical soil bacterial communities in Malaysia: pH dominates in the equatorial tropics too

BM Tripathi, M Kim, D Singh, L Lee-Cruz, A Lai-Hoe… - Microbial ecology, 2012 - Springer
The dominant factors controlling soil bacterial community variation within the tropics are
poorly known. We sampled soils across a range of land use types—primary (unlogged) and …

Application of Illumina next‐generation sequencing to characterize the bacterial community of the Upper Mississippi River

C Staley, T Unno, TJ Gould, B Jarvis… - Journal of Applied …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Aims A next‐generation, Illumina‐based sequencing approach was used to characterize the
bacterial community at ten sites along the Upper Mississippi River to evaluate shifts in the …

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] 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 …

Discovering new indicators of fecal pollution

SL McLellan, AM Eren - Trends in microbiology, 2014 - cell.com
Fecal pollution indicators are essential to identify and remediate contamination sources and
protect public health. Historically, easily cultured facultative anaerobes such as fecal …

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 …