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

By K. Field, M. Samadpour. Water Research, 2007

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Molecular genetic tools for environmental monitoring of New Zealand's aquatic habitats, past, present and the future (2013, background): “The ubiquity of E. coli in warm-blooded vertebrates (Souza et al. 1999) means that it does not provide any information on the source of contamination (Field & Samadpour 2007).”
Modeling Fecal Indicator Bacteria Concentrations in Natural Surface Waters: A Review (2014, methodology): “The MST procedures have been the subject of various reviews (e.g., Scott et al., 2002; Meays et al., 2004; Field and Samadpour, 2007).”
Current Status of Marker Genes of Bacteroides and Related Taxa for Identifying Sewage Pollution in Environmental Waters (2016, background): “Caution should be exercised when choosing a marker for data interpretation because differential decay affects the quantitative estimation of the contribution from each source [11,116].”
Microbial source tracking markers for detection of fecal contamination in environmental waters: relationships between pathogens and human health outcomes. (2014, positive): “…waterborne zoonotic infections caused by pathogens shed in domestic/agricultural animal feces, such as Salmonella, E. coli O157:H7, Campylobacter jejuni, Giardia spp., Cryptosporidium spp., and hepatitis E virus still pose a definite health risk (Field & Samadpour, 2007; Soller et al., 2010b).”