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A Community Multi-Omics Approach towards the Assessment of Surface Water Quality in an Urban River System.

scientific article published on 14 March 2017

A Review of Analytical Techniques and Their Application in Disease Diagnosis in Breathomics and Salivaomics Research

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A multi-omics based ecological analysis of coastal marine sediments from Gladstone, in Australia's Central Queensland, and Heron Island, a nearby fringing platform reef

scientific article published on 30 July 2017

A real-time polymerase chain reaction assay for quantitative detection of the human-specific enterococci surface protein marker in sewage and environmental waters.

scientific article published on 14 August 2008

Abundance of Naegleria fowleri in roof-harvested rainwater tank samples from two continents.

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Amplicon-based profiling of bacteria in raw and secondary treated wastewater from treatment plants across Australia.

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Amplicon-based taxonomic characterization of bacteria in urban and peri-urban roof-harvested rainwater stored in tanks

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Biotin- and Glycoprotein-Coated Microspheres as Surrogates for Studying Filtration Removal of Cryptosporidium parvum in a Granular Limestone Aquifer Medium

scientific article published on 17 April 2015

Comment on "Environmental occurrence of the enterococcal surface protein (esp) gene is an unreliable indicator of human fecal contamination".

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Comparative decay of sewage-associated marker genes in beach water and sediment in a subtropical region

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Comparison of concentration methods for quantitative detection of sewage-associated viral markers in environmental waters.

scientific article published on 9 January 2015

Comparison of concentration methods for rapid detection of hookworm ova in wastewater matrices using quantitative PCR.

scientific article published on 7 September 2015

Comparison of culture-based, vital stain and PMA-qPCR methods for the quantitative detection of viable hookworm ova.

scientific article published on June 2017

Comparison of the efficacy of an existing versus a locally developed metabolic fingerprint database to identify non-point sources of faecal contamination in a coastal lake.

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Consistency in the host specificity and host sensitivity of the Bacteroides HF183 marker for sewage pollution tracking.

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Cross-Comparison of Human Wastewater-Associated Molecular Markers in Relation to Fecal Indicator Bacteria and Enteric Viruses in Recreational Beach Waters

scientific article published on 3 February 2017

Decay of sewage-associated bacterial communities in fresh and marine environmental waters and sediment

scientific article published on 05 June 2018

Detection of virulence genes in Escherichia coli of an existing metabolic fingerprint database to predict the sources of pathogenic E. coli in surface waters.

scientific article published on 7 February 2007

Determination of Ancylostoma caninum ova viability using metabolic profiling.

scientific article published on 28 May 2016

Distributions of Fecal Markers in Wastewater from Different Climatic Zones for Human Fecal Pollution Tracking in Australian Surface Waters

scientific article published on 18 December 2015

Ecological and Technical Mechanisms for Cross-Reaction of Human Fecal Indicators with Animal Hosts

scientific article published on 18 February 2020

Enhanced insights from human and animal host-associated molecular marker genes in a freshwater lake receiving wet weather overflows

scientific article published on 29 August 2019

Escherichia coli and Enterococcus spp. in Rainwater Tank Samples: Comparison of Culture-Based Methods and 23S rRNA Gene Quantitative PCR Assays

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Evaluating sewage-associated JCV and BKV polyomaviruses for sourcing human fecal pollution in a coastal river in Southeast Queensland, Australia.

scientific article published in September 2010

Evaluation of bovine feces-associated microbial source tracking markers and their correlations with fecal indicators and zoonotic pathogens in a Brisbane, Australia, reservoir.

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Evaluation of multiple sewage-associated Bacteroides PCR markers for sewage pollution tracking.

scientific article published on 3 September 2009

Evaluation of the nifH gene marker of Methanobrevibacter smithii for the detection of sewage pollution in environmental waters in Southeast Queensland, Australia.

scientific article published on 12 December 2011

Evidence of Avian and Possum Fecal Contamination in Rainwater Tanks as Determined by Microbial Source Tracking Approaches.

scientific article published on 13 May 2016

Evidence of septic system failure determined by a bacterial biochemical fingerprinting method.

scientific article published in January 2005

Fecal indicators and bacterial pathogens in bottled water from Dhaka, Bangladesh.

scientific article published on 14 May 2013

Fecal indicators and zoonotic pathogens in household drinking water taps fed from rainwater tanks in Southeast Queensland, Australia.

scientific article published on 21 October 2011

Host Specificity and Sensitivity of Established and Novel Sewage-Associated Marker Genes in Human and Nonhuman Fecal Samples

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Human and bovine adenoviruses for the detection of source-specific fecal pollution in coastal waters in Australia.

scientific article published in September 2010

Human health risks for Legionella and Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) from potable and non-potable uses of roof-harvested rainwater

scientific article published on 5 April 2017

Implications of faecal indicator bacteria for the microbiological assessment of roof-harvested rainwater quality in southeast Queensland, Australia.

scientific article published in June 2010

Inactivation of faecal indicator bacteria in a roof-captured rainwater system under ambient meteorological conditions

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Microbiological quality of roof-harvested rainwater and health risks: a review.

scientific article published on January 2011

Monitoring of oil pollution at Gemsa Bay and bioremediation capacity of bacterial isolates with biosurfactants and nanoparticles.

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Occurrence of virulence genes associated with Diarrheagenic pathotypes in Escherichia coli isolates from surface water.

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Opportunistic pathogens in roof-captured rainwater samples, determined using quantitative PCR.

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Optimization of sampling strategy to determine pathogen removal efficacy of activated sludge treatment plant

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Performance characteristics of qPCR assays targeting human- and ruminant-associated bacteroidetes for microbial source tracking across sixteen countries on six continents.

scientific article published on 10 July 2013

Phenotypic variations of enterococci in surface waters: analysis of biochemical fingerprinting data from multi-catchments.

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Population similarity analysis of indicator bacteria for source prediction of faecal pollution in a coastal lake

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Population similarity of enterococci and Escherichia coil in surface waters: A predictive tool to trace the sources of fecal contamination.

scientific article published in September 2006

Prevalence and occurrence of zoonotic bacterial pathogens in surface waters determined by quantitative PCR.

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Prevalence and persistence of Escherichia coli strains with uropathogenic virulence characteristics in sewage treatment plants.

scientific article published on 9 July 2010

Prevalence of enterococcus species and their virulence genes in fresh water prior to and after storm events.

scientific article published on 19 February 2014

Prevalence of human pathogens and indicators in stormwater runoff in Brisbane, Australia.

scientific article published on 16 March 2012

Public health implications of Acanthamoeba and multiple potential opportunistic pathogens in roof-harvested rainwater tanks.

scientific article published on 20 June 2016

Quantification of hookworm ova from wastewater matrices using quantitative PCR.

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Quantitative PCR measurements of Escherichia coli including shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) in animal feces and environmental waters

scientific article published on 18 February 2015

Quantitative detection of viable helminth ova from raw wastewater, human feces, and environmental soil samples using novel PMA-qPCR methods.

scientific article published on 15 June 2016

Rainwater harvesting in American Samoa: current practices and indicative health risks.

scientific article published on 30 March 2017

Rapid concentration and sensitive detection of hookworm ova from wastewater matrices using a real-time PCR method.

scientific article published on 18 August 2015

Real-time PCR detection of pathogenic microorganisms in roof-harvested rainwater in Southeast Queensland, Australia.

scientific article published on 11 July 2008

Relative inactivation of faecal indicator bacteria and sewage markers in freshwater and seawater microcosms.

scientific article published on 5 June 2014

Seasonal Assessment of Opportunistic Premise Plumbing Pathogens in Roof-Harvested Rainwater Tanks

scientific article published on 2 January 2017

Sewage pollution in urban stormwater runoff as evident from the widespread presence of multiple microbial and chemical source tracking markers.

scientific article published on 3 July 2013

Sourcing faecal pollution: a combination of library-dependent and library-independent methods to identify human faecal pollution in non-sewered catchments.

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Speciation and frequency of virulence genes of Enterococcus spp. isolated from rainwater tank samples in Southeast Queensland, Australia.

scientific article published on 25 May 2012

Toolbox Approaches Using Molecular Markers and 16S rRNA Gene Amplicon Data Sets for Identification of Fecal Pollution in Surface Water.

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Utility of Helicobacter spp. associated GFD markers for detecting avian fecal pollution in natural waters of two continents

scientific article published on 9 November 2015