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A Spike Cocktail Approach to Improve Microbial Performance Monitoring for Water Reuse

scientific article published on January 2016

A deterministic model to quantify pathogen loads in drinking water catchments: pathogen budget for the Wingecarribee.

scientific article published in January 2005

A new approach to aid urban water management decision making using trade-off sacrifice modelled by fuzzy logic

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A one-step centrifugal ultrafiltration method to concentrate enteric viruses from wastewater.

scientific article published on 11 September 2016

A sea change ahead for recreational water quality criteria

scientific article published on March 2009

A simple method for evaluating Cryptosporidium-specific antibodies used in monitoring environmental water samples

scientific article published on 01 November 1997

A theoretical approach to assess microbial risks due to failures in drinking water systems

scientific article published on June 1, 2003

Accumulation and fate of microorganisms and microspheres in biofilms formed in a pilot-scale water distribution system

scientific article published on February 2005

Adaptation of anaerobic ammonium-oxidising consortium to synthetic coke-ovens wastewater

scientific article published on 15 May 2002

Adequacy of in situ glass slides and direct sand extractions to assess the microbiota within sand columns used for drinking water treatment

scientific article published in July 2001

An Improved Culture Method for Selective Isolation of Campylobacter jejuni from Wastewater

scientific article published on 26 August 2016

An in-premise model for Legionella exposure during showering events

scientific article published on September 5, 2011

Annual variations and effects of temperature on Legionella spp. and other potential opportunistic pathogens in a bathroom

scientific article published on 4 November 2016

Application and refinement of the WHO risk framework for recreational waters in Sydney, Australia

scientific article published in September 2003

Arctic antibiotic resistance gene contamination, a result of anthropogenic activities and natural origin

scientific article published on 22 October 2017

Artificial groundwater treatment: biofilm activity and organic carbon removal performance

scientific article published on February 2004

Assessing burden of disease as disability adjusted life years in life cycle assessment

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Assessing the health implications of turbidity and suspended particles in protected catchments.

scientific article published in January 2004

Assessment of human virus removal during municipal wastewater treatment in Edmonton, Canada.

scientific article published on 16 October 2015

Bacteriophages as indicators of faecal pollution and enteric virus removal

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Biofilms in an urban water distribution system: measurement of biofilm biomass, pathogens and pathogen persistence within the Greater Stockholm Area, Sweden

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Biotic interactions and sunlight affect persistence of fecal indicator bacteria and microbial source tracking genetic markers in the upper Mississippi river.

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Buffer distances for on-site sewage systems in Sydney's drinking water catchments.

scientific article published in January 2003

Capsid Integrity qPCR—An Azo-Dye Based and Culture-Independent Approach to Estimate Adenovirus Infectivity after Disinfection and in the Aquatic Environment

Centralised versus decentralised sewage systems: a comparison of pathogen and nutrient loads released into Sydney's drinking water catchments

scientific article published in January 2003

Changes in bacterial composition of biofilm in a metropolitan drinking water distribution system.

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Characterization of water treatment-resistant and multidrug-resistant urinary pathogenic Escherichia coli in treated wastewater

scientific article published on 09 June 2020

Colloid chemistry pitfall for flow cytometric enumeration of viruses in water

scientific article published on 23 January 2019

Comparative human health risk analysis of coastal community water and waste service options

scientific article published on 23 July 2014

Comparing the Life Cycle Energy Consumption, Global Warming and Eutrophication Potentials of Several Water and Waste Service Options

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Cost, energy, global warming, eutrophication and local human health impacts of community water and sanitation service options.

scientific article published on 16 November 2016

Critical insights for a sustainability framework to address integrated community water services: Technical metrics and approaches.

scientific article published on 25 March 2015

Decentralised urban water reuse: the implications of system scale for cost and pathogen risk

scientific article published on January 2002

Decreased efficacy of UV inactivation of Staphylococcus aureus after multiple exposure and growth cycles

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Detection, integration and persistence of aeromonads in water distribution pipe biofilms.

scientific article published in June 2004

Development of a process-based model to predict pathogen budgets for the Sydney drinking water catchment.

scientific article published in June 2007

Differential Bacterial Predation by Free-Living Amoebae May Result in Blooms of Legionella in Drinking Water Systems

scientific article published on 15 January 2021

Differential Decay of Enterococci and Escherichia coli Originating from Two Fecal Pollution Sources

scientific article published on February 1, 2013

Differential growth of Legionella pneumophila strains within a range of amoebae at various temperatures associated with in-premise plumbing

scientific article published on June 15, 2011

Dispersion and transport of Cryptosporidium Oocysts from fecal pats under simulated rainfall events

scientific article published on February 2004

Do free-living amoebae in treated drinking water systems present an emerging health risk?

scientific article published on 31 December 2010

Dose-response algorithms for water-borne Pseudomonas aeruginosa folliculitis

scientific article published on 2 October 2014

Effect of Disinfectant Exposure on Legionella pneumophila Associated with Simulated Drinking Water Biofilms: Release, Inactivation, and Infectivity.

scientific article published on 13 January 2017

Effect of temperature and colonization of Legionella pneumophila and Vermamoeba vermiformis on bacterial community composition of copper drinking water biofilms

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Effluent quality from 200 on-site sewage systems: design values for guidelines.

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Enteric virions and microbial biofilms--a secondary source of public health concern?

scientific article published in January 2003

Enterobius vermicularis as a Novel Surrogate for the Presence of Helminth Ova in Tertiary Wastewater Treatment Plants.

scientific article published on 24 March 2017

Environmental (Saprozoic) Pathogens of Engineered Water Systems: Understanding Their Ecology for Risk Assessment and Management

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Environmental inactivation of Cryptosporidium oocysts in catchment soils

scientific article published on January 2005

Establishment and early succession of bacterial communities in monochloramine-treated drinking water biofilms

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Estimated human health risks from exposure to recreational waters impacted by human and non-human sources of faecal contamination

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Estimated human health risks from recreational exposures to stormwater runoff containing animal faecal material

scholarly article by Jeffrey Soller et al published October 2015 in Environmental Modelling and Software

Estimating the risk from sewage treatment plant effluent in the Sydney catchment area

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Evaluating Microbial and Chemical Hazards in Commercial Struvite Recovered from Wastewater

scientific article published on 25 April 2019

Evaluating the importance of faecal sources in human-impacted waters

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Evaluation of Bacteroides fragilis GB-124 bacteriophages as novel human-associated faecal indicators in the United States.

scientific article published on 12 April 2014

Evaluation of Kluyveromyces marxianus FII 510700 grown on a lactose-based medium as a source of a natural bioemulsifier

scientific article published on 19 December 2003

Evaluation of Kluyveromyces marxianus as a source of yeast autolysates

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Evaluation of Various Campylobacter-Specific Quantitative PCR (qPCR) Assays for Detection and Enumeration of Campylobacteraceae in Irrigation Water and Wastewater via a Miniaturized Most-Probable-Number-qPCR Assay

scientific article published on 27 May 2016

Evaluation of fluorochromes for flow cytometric detection of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts labelled by fluorescent in situ hybridization

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Evaluation of three full-scale stormwater treatment systems with respect to water yield, pathogen removal efficacy and human health risk from faecal pathogens.

scientific article published on 23 November 2015

Evidence for the evolution, clonal expansion and global dissemination of water treatment-resistant naturalized strains of Escherichia coli in wastewater

scientific article published on 21 March 2019

Evidence for the existence of Cryptosporidium oocysts as single entities in surface runoff.

scientific article published in January 2005

Exposure to synthetic gray water inhibits amoeba encystation and alters expression of Legionella pneumophila virulence genes

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Extended persistence of general and cattle-associated fecal indicators in marine and freshwater environment

scientific article published on 09 September 2018

Fate and transport of pathogens in lakes and reservoirs

scientific article published on July 2004

Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based specific labeling of Cryptosporidium oocysts for detection in environmental samples

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From the lab to full-scale SBR operation: treating high strength and variable industrial wastewaters

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Genome sequencing reveals the environmental origin of enterococci and potential biomarkers for water quality monitoring

scientific article published on 12 March 2014

Global and local health burden trade-off through the hybridisation of quantitative microbial risk assessment and life cycle assessment to aid water management

scientific article published on 25 March 2015

Human health risk implications of multiple sources of faecal indicator bacteria in a recreational waterbody

scientific article published on 27 August 2014

Human mitochondrial DNA and endogenous bacterial surrogates for risk assessment of graywater reuse.

scientific article published on July 2014

Hydrogen sulphide production tests and the detection of groundwater faecal contamination by septic seepage.

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Impact of drinking water conditions and copper materials on downstream biofilm microbial communities and Legionella pneumophila colonization

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Impacts of Migratory Sandhill Cranes (Grus canadensis) on Microbial Water Quality in the Central Platte River, Nebraska, USA

Including pathogen risk in life cycle assessment: the effect of modelling choices in the context of sewage sludge management

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Incorporating method recovery uncertainties in stochastic estimates of raw water protozoan concentrations for QMRA.

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Interactions Between Human Reovirus and Free-Living Amoebae: Implications for enteric virus disinfection and aquatic persistence

scientific article published on 09 July 2020

Interactions of Pseudomonas aeruginosa with Acanthamoeba polyphaga Observed by Imaging Flow Cytometry

scientific article published on 15 April 2019

Isolation of Legionella pneumophila by Co-culture with Local Ameba, Canada

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Knowledge Gaps in the Understanding of Antimicrobial Resistance in Canada

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Legionella pneumophila transcriptional response following exposure to CuO nanoparticles

scientific article published on 15 February 2013

Legionellae in engineered systems and use of quantitative microbial risk assessment to predict exposure

scientific article published on December 14, 2011

Life cycle assessment of decentralized greywater treatment systems with reuse at different scales in cold regions

scientific article published on 09 November 2019

Long-term persistence of infectious Legionella with free-living amoebae in drinking water biofilms

scientific article published on 27 April 2019

Meeting report: knowledge and gaps in developing microbial criteria for inland recreational waters

journal article published in 2010

Methods for assessing long-term mean pathogen count in drinking water and risk management implications

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Microbial Contamination of Drinking Water and Human Health from Community Water Systems

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Microbial diversities (16S and 18S rRNA gene pyrosequencing) and environmental pathogens within drinking water biofilms grown on the common premise plumbing materials unplasticized polyvinylchloride and copper

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Microbial risk assessment of source-separated urine used in agriculture

scientific article published in April 2002

Microbial risks from wastewater irrigation of salad crops: a screening-level risk assessment

scientific article published in November 2001

Molecular Detection of Legionella spp. and their associations with Mycobacterium spp., Pseudomonas aeruginosa and amoeba hosts in a drinking water distribution system.

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Molecular detection of Campylobacter spp. in California gull (Larus californicus) excreta

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Molecular survey of occurrence and quantity of Legionella spp., Mycobacterium spp., Pseudomonas aeruginosa and amoeba hosts in municipal drinking water storage tank sediments.

scientific article published on 5 June 2015

New perspectives on microbial community distortion after whole-genome amplification

scientific article published on 26 May 2015

Of: Microbial risks from wastewater irrigation of salad crops: a screening-level risk assessment, S. R. Petterson; N. J. Ashbolt; A. Sharma, 73, 667 (2001).

scientific article published in July 2002

Particle dispersion for further Cryptosporidium and Giardia detection by flow cytometry

scientific article published in January 2003

Pathogenic Escherichia coli in rural household container waters

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Persistence of infectious Enterovirus within free-living amoebae - A novel waterborne risk pathway?

scientific article published on 11 July 2018

Persistence of two model enteric viruses (B40-8 and MS-2 bacteriophages) in water distribution pipe biofilms.

scientific article published on January 2001

Photovoltaic powered ultraviolet and visible light-emitting diodes for sustainable point-of-use disinfection of drinking waters.

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Point-of-use water disinfection using ultraviolet and visible light-emitting diodes.

scientific article published on 8 March 2016

Predicting pathogen risks to aid beach management: the real value of quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA).

scientific article published on 26 June 2010

QMRA (quantitative microbial risk assessment) and HACCP (hazard analysis and critical control points) for management of pathogens in wastewater and sewage sludge treatment and reuse.

scientific article published in January 2004

QMRA and water safety management: review of application in drinking water systems

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Quantifying the impact of runoff events on microbiological contaminant concentrations entering surface drinking source waters

scientific article published in December 2005

Recovery and Enumeration of Cryptosporidium parvum from Animal Fecal Matrices

scientific article published on May 1, 2003

Relationships between indicators, pathogens and water quality in an estuarine system

Response of Simulated Drinking Water Biofilm Mechanical and Structural Properties to Long-Term Disinfectant Exposure

scientific article published on 12 January 2016

Response of microbial community and catabolic genes to simulated petroleum hydrocarbon spills in soils/sediments from different geographic locations.

scientific article published in August 2017

Risk-based enteric pathogen reduction targets for non-potable and direct potable use of roof runoff, stormwater, and greywater

scientific article published on 01 January 2017

Role of amoebae for survival and recovery of 'non-culturable' Helicobacter pylori cells in aquatic environments

scientific article published on 08 September 2020

Role of biofilm roughness and hydrodynamic conditions in Legionella pneumophila adhesion to and detachment from simulated drinking water biofilms.

scientific article published on 11 March 2015

Screening Level Risk Assessment (SLRA) of human health risks from faecal pathogens associated with a Natural Swimming Pond (NSP)

scientific article published on 05 October 2020

Screening-level assays for potentially human-infectious environmental Legionella spp.

scientific article published on April 2011

Searching for Activity Markers that Approximate (VBNC) Legionella pneumophila Infectivity in Amoeba after Ultraviolet (UV) Irradiation

article published in 2018

Simulation of enteric pathogen concentrations in locally-collected greywater and wastewater for microbial risk assessments

scientific article published on 01 April 2017

Spiked Virus Level Needed To Correctly Assess Enteric Virus Recovery in Water Matrices

scientific article published on 30 May 2019

Survival of fecal microorganisms in marine and freshwater sediments.

scientific article published on May 1995

The Sixth International Water and Health Seminar, Cannes, France, June 16-18, 2014.

scientific article published on 25 September 2015

The efficacy of heat and chlorine treatment against thermotolerant Acanthamoebae and Legionellae

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The fate of Helicobacter pylori phagocytized by Acanthamoeba polyphaga demonstrated by fluorescent in situ hybridization and quantitative polymerization chain reaction tests

scientific article published on 23 September 2012

The fate of legionellae within distribution pipe biofilms: measurement of their persistence, inactivation and detachment

scientific article published in January 2004

The role of biofilms and protozoa in Legionella pathogenesis: implications for drinking water

scientific article published on 10 March 2009

The use of a ribosomal RNA targeted oligonucleotide probe for fluorescent labelling of viable Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts

scientific article published on 01 September 1998

The value of floc and biofilm bacteria for anammox stability when treating ammonia-rich digester sludge thickening lagoon supernatant

scientific article published on 31 May 2019

Total staphylococci as performance surrogate for greywater treatment.

scientific article published on May 2017

Twenty five years of beach monitoring in Hong Kong: A re-examination of the beach water quality classification scheme from a comparative and global perspective

scientific article published on 22 May 2018

UV Disinfection of Hand-Rinse Greywater and Performance Testing Using Indigenous Staphylococcus spp

UV inactivation of human infectious viruses at two full-scale wastewater treatment plants in Canada

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Vertical response of microbial community and degrading genes to petroleum hydrocarbon contamination in saline alkaline soil

scientific article published on 14 February 2019

Viral risks associated with wastewater reuse: modeling virus persistence on wastewater irrigated salad crops

scientific article published on January 2001

Whole-Genome Sequencing of Four Campylobacter Strains Isolated from Gull Excreta Collected from Hobie Beach (Oxnard, CA, USA)

scientific article published on 08 August 2019

Your garden hose: a potential health risk due to Legionella spp. growth facilitated by free-living amoebae.

scientific article published on 19 August 2014