Freshwater environments as reservoirs of antibiotic resistant bacteria and their role in the dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes

CF Nnadozie, ON Odume - Environmental pollution, 2019 - Elsevier
Freshwater environments are susceptible to possible contamination by residual antibiotics
that are released through different sources, such as agricultural runoffs, sewage discharges …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Coronaviruses in wastewater processes: source, fate and potential risks

ID Amoah, S Kumari, F Bux - Environment international, 2020 - Elsevier
The last 17 years have seen three major outbreaks caused by coronaviruses, with the latest
outbreak, COVID-19, declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. The frequency …

Enterococci in the environment

MN Byappanahalli, MB Nevers, A Korajkic… - Microbiology and …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
Enterococci are common, commensal members of gut communities in mammals and birds,
yet they are also opportunistic pathogens that cause millions of human and animal infections …

Solar water disinfection (SODIS): a review from bench-top to roof-top

KG McGuigan, RM Conroy, HJ Mosler… - Journal of hazardous …, 2012 - Elsevier
Solar water disinfection (SODIS) has been known for more than 30 years. The technique
consists of placing water into transparent plastic or glass containers (normally 2L PET …

Enteric viruses of humans and animals in aquatic environments: health risks, detection, and potential water quality assessment tools

TT Fong, EK Lipp - Microbiology and molecular biology reviews, 2005 - Am Soc Microbiol
Waterborne enteric viruses threaten both human and animal health. These pathogens are
host specific and cause a wide range of diseases and symptoms in humans or other …

A short review of fecal indicator bacteria in tropical aquatic ecosystems: knowledge gaps and future directions

E Rochelle-Newall, TMH Nguyen, TPQ Le… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Given the high numbers of deaths and the debilitating nature of diseases caused by the use
of unclean water it is imperative that we have an understanding of the factors that control the …

Persistence and differential survival of fecal indicator bacteria in subtropical waters and sediments

KL Anderson, JE Whitlock… - Applied and …, 2005 - Am Soc Microbiol
Fecal coliforms and enterococci are indicator organisms used worldwide to monitor water
quality. These bacteria are used in microbial source tracking (MST) studies, which attempt to …

[PDF][PDF] Metarhizium spp., cosmopolitan insect-pathogenic fungi: mycological aspects

DW Roberts, RJ St Leger - Advances in applied microbiology, 2004 - academia.edu
Fungi of the hyphomycete genus Metarhizium have been isolated from infected insects and
soil of all continents except Antarctica, and there have been isolations from near the …

Fecal source tracking, the indicator paradigm, and managing water quality

KG Field, M Samadpour - Water research, 2007 - Elsevier
Fecal source tracking is used because standard methods of measuring fecal contamination
in water by enumerating fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) do not identify the sources of the …