faecal pollution

Distinguishing between human and animal sources of faecal pollution.

Coliform bacteria have been generally accepted as the indicators of faecal pollution.

Carbon source utilization profiles as a method to identify sources of faecal pollution in water.

Faecal pollution from 27 unauthorised on-site sewer systems on the private land behind the beach was blamed.

Instead, public health microbiologists decided to search for microorganisms that were always associated with faecal pollution, but did not cause illness.

This relationship may not exist when the source of faecal pollution is of animal origin (Payment et al.

Decrease stock related erosion and faecal pollution.

Distinguishing sources of faecal pollution using proteomics.

The ability of total coliforms to indicate the presence of faecal pollution is less reliable than E. coli.

Because of this and its ability to multiply in water systems containing suitable nutrients it cannot be used as an indicator of faecal pollution.

Bacteria called faecal coliforms are used as indicators of contamination from sewage and other faecal pollution sources.

They also worry about faecal pollution from the beef cattle, and possible pollution from the pine forests on the northern side.

Temporal distribution of faecal pollution indicators and opportunistic pathogens at a Lake Erie bathing beach.

Faecal pollution in the water is measured by the presence of E coli and enterococci, bacteria that comes from the guts of mammals.

Key words: yellow-pigmented enterococci, faecal pollution, antibiotic susceptibility, DNA typing.

Fingerprinting using sterols and particle size analyses and the management of faecal pollution and turbidity, p.

Results suggested that vancomycin-susceptibility testing of yellow-pigmented enterococci may have potential value in the identification of sources of faecal pollution, especially when combined with traditional quantitative methods.

Determination of the origin of faecal pollution using faecal steriod profiles Humans and animals excrete different types of faecal sterols.

Recent scientific research has shown, on the one hand, that the Commission's proposal with regard to faecal streptococci as the most suitable indicator for faecal pollution has been correct.

A bacteriological water analysis shows only that at the time of examination, bacteria indicating faecal pollution did or did not grow under laboratory conditions from the sample of water tested.

Concerns about faecal pollution seem now to have been suitably addressed by installation of the composting toilet, and campers could be advised to carry in their own supplies of drinking water.

Impacts of management practices, as well as high numbers of birds nesting over the dam were identified as potential sources of faecal pollution in the dam and the catchment.

In addition, there was criticism that the EU proposal failed to reflect the emphasis on human faecal pollution that was central to the WHO Guidelines, and lacked the promised flexibility of management options.

There are no data correlating the presence of enterococci with viruses in drinking water, but they have been found in groundwater, where they can serve as indicators of faecal pollution and indirectly of the presence of viruses (U.S. EPA 2000b; Ashbolt et al.

"Swimming in water that is subject to faecal pollution is associated with an increased risk of gastroenteritis," said Paul R Hunter, professor of health protection at the Norwich School of Medicine, University of East Anglia and editor of the Journal of Water and Health.