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 …
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 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) has been known for more than 30 years. The technique consists of placing water into transparent plastic or glass containers (normally 2L PET …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 is used because standard methods of measuring fecal contamination in water by enumerating fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) do not identify the sources of the …