Background: Pollution–unwanted waste released to air, water, and land by human activity–is
the largest environmental cause of disease in the world today. It is responsible for an …

The long term survival of fecal indicator organisms (FIOs) and human pathogenic
microorganisms in sediments is important from a water quality, human health and ecological …

Water quality is an important public health issue given that the presence of pathogenic
organisms in such waters can adversely affect human and animal health. Despite the …

Although higher microbial concentrations have been reported in sediments than in the
overlying water column, most quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA) studies have …

Although infectious disease risk from recreational exposure to waterborne pathogens has
been an active area of research for decades, beach sand is a relatively unexplored habitat …

With the increasing production of farmed Litopenaeus vannamei, the discharge of culture
sewage and the accumulation of deleterious substances (nitrite, ammonia, sulfide…) in …

Urban marine estuaries are often impacted by microbiological contamination that impairs
use and affects human health acutely, while limited is known about microbiological water …

Abstract The UN Sustainable Development Goals highlight the myriad of socio-economic
and environmental challenges occurring as a result of anthropogenic chemical pollution …

Enterotoxigenic E scherichia coli (ETEC) is a water and food‐borne pathogen that infects the
small intestine of the human gut and causes diarrhoea. Enterotoxigenic E. coli adheres to …

Emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane (CH4) from streams and rivers are a
significant component of global freshwater methane emissions. The distribution of CH4 …