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 …

[HTML][HTML] The microbiome of urban waters

SL McLellan, JC Fisher, RJ Newton - … microbiology: The official …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
More than 50% of the world's population lives in urban centers. As collection basins for
landscape activity, urban waters are an interface between human activity and the natural …

Bacterial community composition and structure in an Urban River impacted by different pollutant sources

AM Ibekwe, J Ma, SE Murinda - Science of the Total Environment, 2016 - Elsevier
Microbial communities in terrestrial fresh water are diverse and dynamic in composition due
to different environmental factors. The goal of this study was to undertake a comprehensive …

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 …

Tracking human sewage microbiome in a municipal wastewater treatment plant

L Cai, F Ju, T Zhang - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2014 - Springer
Human sewage pollution is a major threat to public health because sewage always comes
with pathogens. Human sewage is usually received and treated by wastewater treatment …

Comparison of the microbial community structures of untreated wastewaters from different geographic locales

OC Shanks, RJ Newton, CA Kelty… - Applied and …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
Microbial sewage communities consist of a combination of human fecal microorganisms and
nonfecal microorganisms, which may be residents of urban sewer infrastructure or …

Toolbox approaches using molecular markers and 16S rRNA gene amplicon data sets for identification of fecal pollution in surface water

W Ahmed, C Staley, MJ Sadowsky… - Applied and …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
In this study, host-associated molecular markers and bacterial 16S rRNA gene community
analysis using high-throughput sequencing were used to identify the sources of fecal …

Sequence-enabled community-based microbial source tracking in surface waters using machine learning classification: A review

PP Mathai, C Staley, MJ Sadowsky - Journal of Microbiological Methods, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The development of Microbial Source Tracking (MST) technologies was borne out
of necessity. This was largely due to the: 1) inadequacies of the fecal indicator bacterial …

Data acceptance criteria for standardized human-associated fecal source identification quantitative real-time PCR methods

OC Shanks, CA Kelty, R Oshiro… - Applied and …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
There is growing interest in the application of human-associated fecal source identification
quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) technologies for water quality management. The …

Epidemiologic evaluation of multiple alternate microbial water quality monitoring indicators at three California beaches

JF Griffith, SB Weisberg, BF Arnold, Y Cao, KC Schiff… - Water research, 2016 - Elsevier
Introduction Advances in molecular methods provide new opportunities for directly
measuring pathogens or host-associated markers of fecal pollution instead of relying on …