Bacteriological quality of marine recreational water in a tropical environment reflects coastal residential patterns

Autor: Douglas Mushi

Publikováno v: Scientific African, Vol 8, Iss , Pp e00326- (2020)

Intestinal enterococci (IE) are the leading cause of marine recreational water impairment especially in the tropical developing countries. Here, the concentrations of IE were empirically determined from marine recreational water along the Dar es Sala

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Assessing the faecal source sensitivity and specificity of ruminant and human genetic microbial source tracking markers in the central Ethiopian highlands

Autor: Geda Kebede, Rita Linke, Douglas Mushi, Aschalew Lakew, Andreas H. Farnleitner, Wolfram Graf, Daniel S. Hayes

Publikováno v: Letters in Applied Microbiology

This study tested genetic microbial source tracking (MST) methods for identifying ruminant‐ (BacR) and human‐associated (HF183/BacR287, BacHum) bacterial faecal contaminants in Ethiopia in a newly created regional faecal sample bank (n = 173). Ba

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https://doi.org/10.1111/lam.13436

Hands, Water, and Health: Fecal Contamination in Tanzanian Communities with Improved, Non-Networked Water Supplies

Autor: Jessie Liu, Helena M. Horak, Sarah P. Walters, Amy J. Pickering, Daniel P. Keymer, Douglas Mushi, Joshua Chynoweth, Alexandria B. Boehm, Rachelle Strickfaden, Jennifer Davis, Annalise G. Blum, Kirsten Rogers

Publikováno v: Environmental Science & Technology. 44:3267-3272

Almost half of the world’s population relies on non-networked water supply services, which necessitates in-home water storage. It has been suggested that dirty hands play a role in microbial contamination of drinking water during collection, transp

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https://doi.org/10.1021/es903524m

Microbial faecal pollution of river water in a watershed of tropical Ethiopian highlands is driven by diffuse pollution sources.

Autor: Mushi D; Department of Biosciences, Solomon Mahlangu College of Science and Education, Sokoine University of Agriculture, P.O. Box 3038, Morogoro, Tanzania E-mail: douglas@sua.ac.tz; Douglas Mushi and Geda Kebede contributed equally to this article., Kebede G; Department of Biological Sciences, Ambo University, P.O. Box 95, Ambo, Ethiopia; Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management (IHG), BOKU, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Gregor-Mendel-Straße 33, 1180 Vienna, Austria; Douglas Mushi and Geda Kebede contributed equally to this article., Linke RB; Research Group of Environmental Microbiology and Molecular Diagnostics 166/5/3, Institute of Chemical, Environmental and Bioscience Engineering, TU Wien, Gumpendorferstrasse 1A/166, 1060 Vienna, Austria., Lakew A; National Fishery and Aquatic Life Research Centre, Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR), P.O. Box 64, Sebeta, Ethiopia., Hayes DS; Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management (IHG), BOKU, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Gregor-Mendel-Straße 33, 1180 Vienna, Austria; Centro de Estudos Florestais (CEF), University of Lisbon, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisbon, Portugal., Graf W; Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management (IHG), BOKU, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Gregor-Mendel-Straße 33, 1180 Vienna, Austria., Farnleitner AH; Research Group of Environmental Microbiology and Molecular Diagnostics 166/5/3, Institute of Chemical, Environmental and Bioscience Engineering, TU Wien, Gumpendorferstrasse 1A/166, 1060 Vienna, Austria; Research Division Water Quality and Health, Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Microbiology, Karl Landsteiner University for Health Sciences, Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30, 3500 Krems an der Donau, Austria.

Publikováno v: Journal of water and health [J Water Health] 2021 Aug; Vol. 19 (4), pp. 575-591.