Global distribution of human-associated fecal genetic markers in reference samples from six continents

• Main Authors: Mayer, René E., Reischer, Georg H., Ixenmaier, Simone K., Derx, Julia, Blaschke, Alfred Paul, Ebdon, James E., Linke, Rita, Egle, Lukas, Ahmed, Warish, Blanch, Anicet R., Byamukama, Denis, Savill, Marion, Mushi, Douglas, Cristóbal, Héctor A., Edge, Thomas A., Schade, Margit A., Aslan, Asli, Brooks, Yolanda M., Sommer, Regina, Masago, Yoshifumi, Sato, Maria I., Taylor, Huw D., Rose, Joan B., Wuertz, Stefan, Shanks, Orin C., Piringer, Harald, Mach, Robert L., Savio, Domenico, Zessner, Matthias, Farnleitner, Andreas H.
• Other Authors: Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Microbial Source Tracking; Pollution Microbiology; Science::Biological sciences
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107510; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49715
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Numerous bacterial genetic markers are available for the molecular detection of human sources of fecal pollution in environmental waters. However, widespread application is hindered by a lack of knowledge regarding geographical stability, limiting implementation to a small number of well-characteriz...