Human and animal fecal contamination of community water sources, stored drinking water and hands in rural India measured with validated microbial source tracking assays

• Main Authors: Schriewer, Alexander, Odagiri, Mitsunori, Wuertz, Stefan, Misra, Pravas R., Panigrahi, Pinaki, Clasen, Thomas, Jenkins, Marion W.
• Other Authors: School of Biological Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences; Human Feces; Water Contamination
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88535; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45905
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We examined pathways of exposure to fecal contamination of human and animal origin in 24 villages in Odisha, India. In a cross-sectional study during the monsoon season, fecal exposure via community water sources (N = 123) and in the home (N = 137) was assessed using human- and nonhuman-associated B...