Integrated Analysis of Established and Novel Microbial and Chemical Methods for Microbial Source Tracking

MICROBIAL SOURCE TRACKING - FAQs

Microbial Source Tracking within your watershed can provide important information regarding the Point Source (structures, pipes, sewage outfalls) and Non-Point Source (runoff, animals) contamination present in your service area. Determination of human, ruminant and other fecal inputs into surface source or ground waters can provide a scientific basis for watershed management decisions and can a...

Microbial Source Tracking Study

Microbial Source Tracking

Microbial contamination affects a large number of water bodies in the US. Because it is not feasible to directly monitor all pathogens, it is standard practice to monitor fecal indicator bacteria (FIB), such as total and fecal coliforms, Clostridium perfringens, Escherichia coli, and fecal enterococci, in water. Epidemiological studies have established human health standards based on exposure t...

Performance, design, and analysis in microbial source tracking studies.

Microbial source tracking (MST) includes a group of methodologies that are aimed at identifying, and in some cases quantifying, the dominant source(s) of fecal contamination in resource waters, including drinking, ground, recreational, and wildlife habitat waters. MST methods can be grouped into two major types. Library-dependent methods are culture based and rely on isolate-by-isolate typing o...

Microbial Indicators of Fecal Contamination: Application to Microbial Source Tracking