List of works by Edward Topp

A comparison of AFLP and ERIC-PCR analyses for discriminating Escherichia coli from cattle, pig and human sources.

scientific article

A comparison of DNA extraction and purification methods to detect Escherichia coli O157:H7 in cattle manure

scientific article

A comparison of enrichment and direct-plating methods for isolation of Listeria monocytogenes from surface water.

scientific article published on 10 October 2012

A comparison of three atrazine-degrading bacteria for soil bioremediation

article by Edward Topp published 1 June 2001 in Biology and Fertility of Soils

A methods comparison for the isolation and detection of thermophilic Campylobacter in agricultural watersheds

scientific article published on 6 October 2009

A multi-assay screening approach for assessment of endocrine-active contaminants in wastewater effluent samples

scientific article published on 27 March 2013

A national investigation of the prevalence and diversity of thermophilic Campylobacter species in agricultural watersheds in Canada

scientific article published on 28 May 2014

A novel fingerprint method to assess the diversity of methanogens in microbial systems

scientific article

Abundance of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Bacteriophage following Soil Fertilization with Dairy Manure or Municipal Biosolids, and Evidence for Potential Transduction

scientific article published on 4 September 2015

Accelerated Biodegradation of Veterinary Antibiotics in Agricultural Soil following Long-Term Exposure, and Isolation of a Sulfamethazine-degrading sp

scientific article

An effective bioremediation approach for enhanced microbial degradation of the veterinary antibiotic sulfamethazine in an agricultural soil

An enhanced technique combining pre-enrichment and passive filtration increases the isolation efficiency of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli from water and animal fecal samples

scientific article published on 14 September 2012

An evaluation of logic regression-based biomarker discovery across multiple intergenic regions for predicting host specificity in Escherichia coli

scientific article

Antibiotic resistance and diversity of Salmonella enterica serovars associated with broiler chickens

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Antibiotic resistance and virulence genes in commensal Escherichia coli and Salmonella isolates from commercial broiler chicken farms

scientific article published in June 2007

Antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coll and Enterococcus spp. isolates from commercial broiler chickens receiving growth-promoting doses of bacitracin or virginiamycin

scientific article published on January 2008

Antimicrobial Resistance of Escherichia fergusonii Isolated from Broiler Chickens

scientific article published on June 2016

Antimicrobial resistance and the environment: Assessment of advances, gaps and recommendations for agriculture, aquaculture and pharmaceutical manufacturing

scientific article published on 22 December 2017

Assessing host-specificity of Escherichia coli using a supervised learning logic-regression-based analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms in intergenic regions

scientific article

Assessment of a new Bacteroidales marker targeting North American beaver (Castor canadensis) fecal pollution by real-time PCR.

scientific article published on 31 August 2013

Back to the Future of Soil Metagenomics

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Bacteria associated with cysts of the soybean cyst nematode (Heterodera glycines).

scientific article published in January 2003

Bacterial community dynamics in an anaerobic plug-flow type bioreactor treating swine manure

scientific article

Biodegradation of benzalkonium chlorides singly and in mixtures by a Pseudomonas sp. isolated from returned activated sludge.

scientific article published on 31 July 2015

Biosolids applied to agricultural land: Influence on structural and functional endpoints of soil fauna on a short- and long-term scale

scientific article published on 18 April 2016

Characteristics and frequency of detection of fecal Listeria monocytogenes shed by livestock, wildlife, and humans

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Characterization of antibiotic-resistant and potentially pathogenic Escherichia coli from soil fertilized with litter of broiler chickens fed antimicrobial-supplemented diets.

scientific article

Characterization of tetracycline- and ampicillin-resistant Escherichia coli isolated from the feces of feedlot cattle over the feeding period

scientific article published in June 2009

Class 1 integrons, selected virulence genes, and antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli isolates from the Minjiang River, Fujian Province, China

scientific article

Commensal fecal Escherichia coli diversity in dairy cows at high and low risk for incurring subacute ruminal acidosis.

scientific article published in October 2009

Correction: Genomic Comparison of Non-Typhoidal Salmonella enterica Serovars Typhimurium, Enteritidis, Heidelberg, Hadar and Kentucky Isolates from Broiler Chickens

scientific article published on 8 February 2016

Correction: Genomic Comparison of Non-Typhoidal Salmonella enterica Serovars Typhimurium, Enteritidis, Heidelberg, Hadar and Kentucky Isolates from Broiler Chickens

scientific article published on 9 September 2015

Critical knowledge gaps and research needs related to the environmental dimensions of antibiotic resistance.

scientific article published on 7 May 2018

Dependence of accelerated degradation of atrazine on soil pH in French and Canadian soils

article

Detection of virulence, antibiotic resistance and toxin (VAT) genes in Campylobacter species using newly developed multiplex PCR assays

scientific article published on 21 March 2016

Development and evaluation of multiplex PCR assays for rapid detection of virulence-associated genes in Arcobacter species

scientific article published on 05 January 2016

Development of a rapid quantitative PCR assay for direct detection and quantification of culturable and non-culturable Escherichia coli from agriculture watersheds

scientific article published on 12 March 2007

Dissipation of triclosan, triclocarban, carbamazepine and naproxen in agricultural soil following surface or sub-surface application of dewatered municipal biosolids

scientific article published on 30 January 2015

Distribution and characteristics of Listeria monocytogenes isolates from surface waters of the South Nation River watershed, Ontario, Canada

scientific article

Distribution and diversity of Escherichia coli populations in the South Nation River drainage basin, eastern Ontario, Canada

scientific article

Distribution of antimicrobial resistance and virulence genes in Enterococcus spp. and characterization of isolates from broiler chickens

scientific article

Draft Genome Sequence of Arcobacter cibarius Strain LMG21996T, Isolated from Broiler Carcasses

scientific article published on 20 February 2014

Draft genome sequences of three arcobacter strains of pig and dairy cattle manure origin

scientific article

Draft genome sequences of two arcobacter strains isolated from human feces

scientific article published on 03 April 2014

Duplex PCR methods for the molecular detection of Escherichia fergusonii isolates from broiler chickens

scientific article published on 17 January 2014

Dynamics of antimicrobial resistance and virulence genes in Enterococcus faecalis during swine manure storage

scientific article published on August 2010

Ecotoxicological assessment of antibiotics: A call for improved consideration of microorganisms

scientific article published on 24 September 2015

Editorial: Special section of FEMS Microbiology Ecology on the environmental dimension of antibiotic resistance

scientific article published on 7 September 2016

Effect of Co-Composting Cattle Manure with Construction and Demolition Waste on the Archaeal, Bacterial, and Fungal Microbiota, and on Antimicrobial Resistance Determinants

scientific article

Effect of nitrogen fertilizers and moisture content on CH4 and N2O fluxes in a humisol: Measurements in the field and intact soil cores

Effect of subtherapeutic vs. therapeutic administration of macrolides on antimicrobial resistance in Mannheimia haemolytica and enterococci isolated from beef cattle

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Enrichment of antibiotic resistance genes in soil receiving composts derived from swine manure, yard wastes, or food wastes, and evidence for multi-year persistence of swine <i></i>Clostridium<i></i> spp.

scientific article published on 17 January 2018

Enumeration and strain characterization of fecal Escherichia coli associated with feeding triticale dried distillers grain with solubles in beef cattle diets

scientific article published on 14 August 2010

Environmental Risk Assessment of Pharmaceuticals

Erratum to “Runnoff of pharmaceuticals and personal care products following application of dewatered municipal biosolids to an agricultural field” [Science of the Total Environment 407 (2009) 4596–4604]

scholarly article published in Science of the Total Environment

Escherichia coli O157:H7 lineages in healthy beef and dairy cattle and clinical human cases in Alberta, Canada.

scientific article

Evaluating the pathogenic potential of environmental Escherichia coli by using the Caenorhabditis elegans infection model

scientific article published on February 2013

Evaluation of QIAamp DNA Stool Mini Kit for ecological studies of gut microbiota

scientific article published in July 2003

Evaluation of commercial odor control agents for suppressing Escherichia coli in swine manure slurry.

scientific article published in November 2002

Evaluation of denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis in the detection of 16S rDNA sequence variation in rhizobia and methanotrophs

scientific article published in 2006

Evidence of Naturalized Stress-Tolerant Strains of Escherichia coli in Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants

scientific article

Factors Influencing the Concentration of Volatile Fatty Acids, Ammonia, and Other Nutrients in Stored Liquid Pig Manure

article published in 2007

Fate of the antifungal drug clotrimazole in agricultural soil

scientific article published on 29 December 2010

Fate of the antiretroviral drug tenofovir in agricultural soil

scientific article published on 30 August 2010

Fate of the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug naproxen in agricultural soil receiving liquid municipal biosolids

scientific article published in October 2008

Fecal source tracking in water using a mitochondrial DNA microarray

scientific article

Frequency of virulence genes and antibiotic resistances in Enterococcus spp. isolates from wastewater and feces of domesticated mammals and birds, and wildlife

scientific article published in September 2010

Genomic Comparison of Non-Typhoidal Salmonella enterica Serovars Typhimurium, Enteritidis, Heidelberg, Hadar and Kentucky Isolates from Broiler Chickens

scientific article published on 17 June 2015

Harnessing the theoretical foundations of the exponential and beta-Poisson dose-response models to quantify parameter uncertainty using Markov Chain Monte Carlo

scientific article published on 11 January 2013

High-throughput species identification of enterococci using pyrosequencing

scientific article published on 23 March 2012

Identification of Methanoculleus spp. as active methanogens during anoxic incubations of swine manure storage tank samples

scientific article published on 26 October 2012

Identifying host sources of fecal pollution: diversity of Escherichia coli in confined dairy and swine production systems

scientific article

Impact of biosolids on the persistence and dissipation pathways of triclosan and triclocarban in an agricultural soil

scientific article published on 5 September 2009

Impact of dairy manure pre-application treatment on manure composition, soil dynamics of antibiotic resistance genes, and abundance of antibiotic-resistance genes on vegetables at harvest.

scientific article

Impact of feed supplementation with antimicrobial agents on growth performance of broiler chickens, Clostridium perfringens and enterococcus counts, and antibiotic resistance phenotypes and distribution of antimicrobial resistance determinants in Es

scientific article

Impact of fertilizing with raw or anaerobically digested sewage sludge on the abundance of antibiotic-resistant coliforms, antibiotic resistance genes, and pathogenic bacteria in soil and on vegetables at harvest

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Impact of manure fertilization on the abundance of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and frequency of detection of antibiotic resistance genes in soil and on vegetables at harvest

scientific article published on 12 July 2013

Impact of pre-application treatment on municipal sludge composition, soil dynamics of antibiotic resistance genes, and abundance of antibiotic-resistance genes on vegetables at harvest.

scientific article published on 24 February 2017

Incentives and disincentives identified by producers and drainage contractors/experts on the adoption of controlled tile drainage in eastern Ontario, Canada

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Isolation and Characterization of Acinetobacter baumannii Recovered from Campylobacter Selective Medium

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Long Term Exposure of Agricultural Soil to Veterinary Antibiotics Changes the Population Structure of Symbiotic Nitrogen-Fixing Rhizobacteria Occupying Nodules of Soybeans (Glycine max).

scientific article published on 2 March 2018

Long-term antibiotic exposure in soil is associated with changes in microbial community structure and prevalence of class 1 integrons

scientific article

Loss of virulence genes in Escherichia coli populations during manure storage on a commercial swine farm

scientific article published on 25 April 2008

Maintenance strategies for on-site water disinfection by ultraviolet lamps on dairy farms

Management options for reducing the release of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes to the environment

scientific article

Methanoculleus spp. as a biomarker of methanogenic activity in swine manure storage tanks

scientific article published on 13 February 2012

Modeling Sorption Behavior of Atrazine on Intact Soil Columns

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Molecular and phylogenetic approaches for assessing sources of Cryptosporidium contamination in water

scientific article published on 10 July 2012

Multiplex PCR-DNA probe assay for the detection of pathogenic Escherichia coli.

scientific article

Multivariate statistical analyses of rDNA and rRNA fingerprint data to differentiate microbial communities in swine manure

scientific article

NOVEL ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE DETERMINANTS FROM AGRICULTURAL SOIL EXPOSED TO ANTIBIOTICS WIDELY USED IN HUMAN MEDICINE AND ANIMAL FARMING.

scientific article published on 16 June 2017

Novel virulence, antibiotic resistance and toxin gene-specific PCR-based assays for rapid pathogenicity assessment of Arcobacter faecis and Arcobacter lanthieri

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Optimization and validation of rep-PCR genotypic libraries for microbial source tracking of environmental Escherichia coli isolates

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Pathogen removal in farm-scale psychrophilic anaerobic digesters processing swine manure

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Pathotype and antibiotic resistance gene distributions of Escherichia coli isolates from broiler chickens raised on antimicrobial-supplemented diets

scientific article published on 11 September 2009

Persistence and pathways of testosterone dissipation in agricultural soil

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Persistence of antibiotic resistance and plasmid-associated genes in soil following application of sewage sludge and abundance on vegetables at harvest

scientific article

Persistence of endocrine-disrupting chemicals in agricultural soils

Persistence of testosterone and 17beta-estradiol in soils receiving swine manure or municipal biosolids

scientific article published on 20 April 2005

Pharmaceuticals in the environment: biodegradation and effects on natural microbial communities. A review

scientific article

Phenotypic and Genotypic Characteristics of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Isolated from Surface Waters and Sediments in a Canadian Urban-Agricultural Landscape

scientific article published on 5 April 2016

Physico-chemical characteristics and methanogen communities in swine and dairy manure storage tanks: spatio-temporal variations and impact on methanogenic activity

scientific article published on 12 November 2012

Plant-Produced Chimeric VH-sIgA Against Enterohemorrhagic Intimin Shows Cross-Serotype Inhibition of Bacterial Adhesion to Epithelial Cells

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Practical considerations optically sensing rhodamine WT in water impacted by municipal biosolids

Presence of zoonotic pathogens in physico-chemically characterized manures from hog finishing houses using different production systems

scientific article published on 4 February 2010

Prolonged survival of Campylobacter species in bovine manure compost

scientific article

Quantitative Campylobacter spp., antibiotic resistance genes, and veterinary antibiotics in surface and ground water following manure application: Influence of tile drainage control

scientific article published on 8 June 2015

Real-time quantification of mcrA, pmoA for methanogen, methanotroph estimations during composting

scientific article

Reduced persistence of the macrolide antibiotics erythromycin, clarithromycin and azithromycin in agricultural soil following several years of exposure in the field

scientific article published on 17 April 2016

Runoff of pharmaceuticals and personal care products following application of biosolids to an agricultural field

scientific article published on 2 April 2008

Runoff of pharmaceuticals and personal care products following application of dewatered municipal biosolids to an agricultural field

scientific article published on 22 May 2009

Safely coupling livestock and crop production systems: how rapidly do antibiotic resistance genes dissipate in soil following a commercial application of swine or dairy manure?

scientific article

Seasonal relationships among indicator bacteria, pathogenic bacteria, Cryptosporidium oocysts, Giardia cysts, and hydrological indices for surface waters within an agricultural landscape

scientific article published on 11 February 2009

Selected antimicrobial resistance during composting of manure from cattle administered sub-therapeutic antimicrobials

scientific article published on 6 February 2009

Simulation of pharmaceutical and personal care product transport to tile drains after biosolids application

scientific article published on 27 April 2009

Spatial and temporal drivers of zoonotic pathogen contamination of an agricultural watershed

scientific article published in January 2012

Spatial distribution of some microbial trophic groups in a plug-flow-type anaerobic bioreactor treating swine manure

scientific article published in January 2010

Spatiotemporal analysis of Cryptosporidium species/genotypes and relationships with other zoonotic pathogens in surface water from mixed-use watersheds

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Spectral Counting Approach to Measure Selectivity of High-Resolution LC-MS Methods for Environmental Analysis

scientific article published on 07 February 2017

Strain-dependent variability in growth and survival of Escherichia coli in agricultural soil.

scientific article

Survey of hormone activities in municipal biosolids and animal manures

scientific article published on June 2004

Survival of various ERIC-genotypes of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli in well water

scholarly article by Leigh Watterworth et al published 6 July 2006 in Water, Air and Soil Pollution

Temporal dynamics and impact of manure storage on antibiotic resistance patterns and population structure of Escherichia coli isolates from a commercial swine farm

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The antihistamine diphenhydramine is extremely persistent in agricultural soil

scientific article published on 11 October 2012

The detection of Cryptosporidium and the resolution of mixtures of species and genotypes from water

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The impact of municipal sewage sludge stabilization processes on the abundance, field persistence, and transmission of antibiotic resistant bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes to vegetables at harvest

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The nasopharyngeal microbiota of feedlot cattle that develop bovine respiratory disease.

scientific article published on 28 July 2015

The non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug diclofenac is readily biodegradable in agricultural soils

scientific article published on 16 October 2010

The occurrence and sources of Campylobacter spp., Salmonella enterica and Escherichia coli O157:H7 in the Salmon River, British Columbia, Canada

scientific article published on 9 November 2009

The scourge of antibiotic resistance: the important role of the environment

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The triazine hydrolase gene trzN from Nocardioides sp. strain C190: cloning and construction of gene-specific primers

scientific article published in January 2002

Towards understanding the "proline-centric" design of a peptide-mediated macrolide resistance mechanism

scientific article published on 5 February 2018

Tracking host sources of Cryptosporidium spp. in raw water for improved health risk assessment

scientific article

Transport of PPCPs and Veterinary Medicines from Agricultural Fields following Application of Biosolids or Manure

Triclocarban, triclosan and its transformation product methyl triclosan in native earthworm species four years after a commercial-scale biosolids application

scientific article published on 28 November 2013

Two thousand–year reconstruction of livestock production intensity in France using sediment-archived fecal Bacteroidales and source-specific mitochondrial markers

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Uptake of pharmaceuticals, hormones and parabens into vegetables grown in soil fertilized with municipal biosolids

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Variation of an indicator ofEscherichia colipersistence from surface waters of mixed-use watersheds, and relationship with environmental factors

Veterinary antimicrobials in feedlot manure: dissipation during composting and effects on composting processes

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Waterborne Viruses and F-Specific Coliphages in Mixed-Use Watersheds: Microbial Associations, Host Specificities, and Affinities with Environmental/Land Use Factors.

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