
The Science of The Total Environment, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 957, С. 177468 - 177468
Опубликована: Ноя. 14, 2024
Plasmid pBI143, a potential human-specific microbial source tracking marker, has previously been tested only in the USA. This study evaluated performance of pBI143 marker comparison with BacHum, gyrB, and HF183 TaqMan using quantitative PCR on 65 fecal-source samples. Furthermore, it examined reduction by wastewater treatment processes compared to other markers. The analysis included 48 samples for TaqMan, along 17 additional samples, raw secondary-treated sewage (n = 2 each) deer fecal 13). validation results indicated that is highly sensitive specific detecting human contamination, sensitivity, specificity, accuracy 100 %, 88 94 respectively. outperformed markers, which, despite having high sensitivity (97 %-100 %), exhibited much lower specificity (44 %-66 %). presence was river water from 21 sites Yamanashi Prefecture detected 95 % indicating likely these are contaminated sources. During treatment, showed significant reduction, highest log
Язык: Английский