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Keylin Mendoza, Bryan Ortiz, Luis Rivera, Tania Peña, Marcio Chirinos-Escobar, Lourdes Enríquez, Victoria Maldonado and Gustavo Fontecha
Water can act as a vector for several microbes with significant pathogenic potential for both humans and animals. Waterborne infections are a critical public health concern as they cause more than 3.4 million deaths annually. Total and thermotolerant col...
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Tao Huang, Wilfred M. Wollheim and Stephen H. Jones
Fecal contamination is a significant source of water quality impairment globally. Aquatic ecosystems can provide an important ecosystem service of fecal contamination removal. Understanding the processes that regulate the removal of fecal contamination a...
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Guy Iverson, Christa Sanderford, Charles P. Humphrey, Jr., J. Randall Etheridge and Timothy Kelley
Wastewater contains elevated concentrations of fecal indicator bacteria (FIB). The type of wastewater treatment technology and septic system density may influence the FIB concentration and exports at the watershed scale. The goal of this study was to gai...
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Alice Madonia, Gabriella Caruso, Daniele Piazzolla, Simone Bonamano, Viviana Piermattei, Giuseppe Zappalà and Marco Marcelli
Dissolved organic matter present in natural aquatic environments is a heterogeneous mixture of allochthonous and autochthonous materials. In coastal areas vulnerable to sewage waste, its biologically active component, the chromophoric dissolved organic m...
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Ingun Tryland, Henrik Braathen, Aina C. Wennberg, Fasil Eregno, Anna-Lena Beschorner
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Simple, automated methods are required for rapid detection of wastewater contamination in urban recreational water. The activity of the enzyme ß-d-galactosidase (GAL) can rapidly (<2 h) be measured by field instruments, or a fully automated instrument, a...
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Yueming Lu, R. Paul Philp and Coralie Biache
Fecal contamination is a major concern for water quality management, since the fecal materials are associated with pathogens that can cause illness wherever water is used for recreational, drinking and aquaculture purposes. In order to monitor source(s) ...
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Natalie G. Exum, Margaret N. Kosek, Meghan F. Davis and Kellogg J. Schwab
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Mitsunori Odagiri, Alexander Schriewer, Miles E. Daniels, Stefan Wuertz, ... Marion W. Jenkins
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Efforts to eradicate open defecation and improve sanitation access are unlikely to achieve health benefits unless interventions reduce microbial exposures. This study assessed human fecal contamination and pathogen exposures in rural India, and the effec...
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Sean Butler, Tim Webster, Anna Redden, Jennie Rand, Nathan Crowell and William Livingstone
The contamination of shellfish harvesting areas by fecal bacteria in the Annapolis Basin of Nova Scotia, Canada, is a recurring problem which has consequences for industry, government, and local communities. This study contributes to the development of a...
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Rachel Peletz, Emily Kumpel, Mateyo Bonham, Zarah Rahman and Ranjiv Khush
Water quality information is important for guiding water safety management and preventing water-related diseases. To assess the current status of regulated water quality monitoring in sub-Saharan Africa, we evaluated testing programs for fecal contaminat...
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Reinaldo Rivera, Patricio de Los Ríos, Ángel Contreras
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The presence of alloctone bacteria is considered as one of the more important biological pollutants of water bodies, existing one close relation between the fecal contamination indicators and the existence of urban and industrial zones. In the present...
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Lukman Fashina, Ingrid Luffman, T. Andrew Joyner and Arpita Nandi
Karst springs are an essential source of private water supply for about 10% of households in Tennessee. However, the water quality of these springs is unmonitored and unregulated even though many springs are highly productive yet vulnerable to contaminat...
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Joshua N. Edokpayi, Elizabeth T. Rogawski, David M. Kahler, Courtney L. Hill, Catherine Reynolds, Emanuel Nyathi, James A. Smith, John O. Odiyo, Amidou Samie, Pascal Bessong and Rebecca Dillingham
Consumption of microbial-contaminated water can result in diarrheal illnesses and enteropathy with the heaviest impact upon children below the age of five. We aimed to provide a comprehensive analysis of water quality in a low-resource setting in Limpopo...
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Joshua N. Edokpayi, Elizabeth T. Rogawski, David M. Kahler, Courtney L. Hill, Catherine Reynolds, Emanuel Nyathi, James A. Smith, John O. Odiyo, Amidou Samie, Pascal Bessong and Rebecca Dillingham
Consumption of microbial-contaminated water can result in diarrheal illnesses and enteropathy with the heaviest impact upon children below the age of five. We aimed to provide a comprehensive analysis of water quality in a low-resource setting in Limpopo...
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Laura Ducci, Pietro Rizzo, Riccardo Pinardi, Augusto Solfrini, Alessandro Maggiali, Mattia Pizzati, Fabrizio Balsamo and Fulvio Celico
Urban areas exercise numerous and strong pressures on water bodies, implying that different external anthropogenic factors also stress groundwater. Sewerage networks play an important role, being the place of wastewater flow. When sewerage deterioration ...
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Niels De Troyer, Seid Tiku Mereta, Peter L.M. Goethals and Pieter Boets
The combination of rapid urbanization, industrialization, population growth, and low environmental awareness poses a major threat to worldwide valuable freshwater resources, which provide important ecosystem services to humans. There is an urgent need to...
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Niels De Troyer, Seid Tiku Mereta, Peter L.M. Goethals, Pieter Boets
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The combination of rapid urbanization, industrialization, population growth, and low environmental awareness poses a major threat to worldwide valuable freshwater resources, which provide important ecosystem services to humans. There is an urgent need to...
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Fritz Petersen and Jason A. Hubbart
Escherichia (E.) coli is a fecal microbe that inhabits the intestines of endotherms (primary habitat) and the natural environment (secondary habitats). Due to prevailing thinking regarding the limited capacity of E. coli to survive in the environment, re...
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Kyna Borel, Vaishali Swaminathan, Cherish Vance, Galen Roberts, Raghavan Srinivasan, Raghupathy Karthikeyan
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In the United States, pathogens are the leading cause for rivers and streams to exceed water quality standards. The Spatially Explicit Load Enrichment Calculation Tool (SELECT) was developed to estimate bacterially contaminated water bodies based on spat...
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Daniele Arduini, Giuseppe Portacci, Adriana Giangrande, Maria Immacolata Acquaviva, Jacopo Borghese, Claudio Calabrese, Santina Giandomenico, Elisa Quarta and Loredana Stabili
The cultivation of the Mediterranean mussel, Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819, has been tested in an innovative Integrated Multitrophic Aquaculture system (IMTA) in the Mar Grande of Taranto, as part of the EU-funded Remedialife project. This farm...
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