Use of abundance ratios of somatic coliphages and bacteriophages of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron GA17 for microbial source identification

Water Research

Volumn 46, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 6410-6418

  Muniesa, Maite ^a   Lucena, Francisco ^a   Blanch, Anicet R ^a   Payán, Andrey ^b   Jofre, Juan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Bacterial; Bacteriophage; Microbiology; MST; Pollution; Viruses

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; COMPUTER VIRUSES; EFFLUENTS; HEALTH RISKS; MICROBIOLOGY; NUMERICAL METHODS; POLLUTION; RIVER POLLUTION; SEWAGE SLUDGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER MANAGEMENT;

BACTERIAL; BACTEROIDES THETAIOTAOMICRON; FAECAL POLLUTIONS; MICROBIAL INDICATORS; RISK TO HUMAN HEALTH; SOMATIC COLIPHAGES; TERTIARY EFFLUENT; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

BACTERIOPHAGES;

EID: 84868302661     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2012.09.015     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Altizer S., Dobson A., Hosseini P., Hudson P., Pascual M., Rohani P. Seasonality and the dynamics of infectious diseases. Ecology Letters 2006, 9:467-484.
2. Anonymous ISO 9308-1. Detection and Enumeration of E. coli and Coliform Bacteria - Part 1: Membrane Filtration Method 2000, International Standardisation Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland.
3. Anonymous ISO 10705-2: Water Quality. Detection and Enumeration of Bacteriophages - Part 2: Enumeration of Somatic Coliphages 2000, International Organisation for Standardisation, Geneva, Switzerland.
4. Anonymous ISO 10705-4: Water Quality. Detection and Enumeration of Bacteriophages - Part 2: Enumeration of Bacteriophages Infecting Bacteroides Fragilis 2001, International Organisation for Standardisation, Geneva, Switzerland.
5. Armon R., Kott Y. Bacteriophages as indicators of pollution. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology 1996, 26:299-335.
6. Belanche-Muñoz L., Blanch A.R. Machine learning methods for microbial source tracking. Environmental Modelling and Software 2008, 23:741-750.
7. Blanch A., Belanche-Muñoz L., Bonjoch X., Ebdon J., Gantzer C., Lucena F., Ottoson J., Kourtis C., Iversen A., Kühn I., Mocé L., Muniesa M., Schwartzbrod J., Skraber S., Papageorgiou G.T., Taylor H., Wallis J., Jofre J. Integrated analysis of established and novel microbial and chemical methods for microbial source tracking. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 2006, 72:5915-5926.
8. Bonilla N., Santiago T., Marcos P., Urdaneta M., Domingo J.S., Toranzos G.A. Enterophages, a group of phages infecting Enterococcus faecalis, and their potential as alternate indicators of human faecal contamination. Water Science and Technology 2010, 61:293-300.
9. Caldwell J.M., Raley M.E., Levine J.F. Mitochondrial multiplex real-time PCR as a source tracking method in faecal contaminated effluents. Environmental Science and Technology 2007, 41:3277-3283.
10. Contreras-Coll N., Lucena F., Mooijman K., Havelaar A., Pierzo V., Boqué M., Gawler A., Höller C., Lambiri M., Mirolo G., Moreno B., Niemi M., Sommer R., Valentin B., Wiedenmann A., Young V., Jofre J. Occurrence and levels of indicator bacteriophages in bathing waters through Europe. Water Research 2002, 36:4963-4974.
11. Dowell S.F. Seasonal variation in host susceptibility and cycles of certain infectious diseases. Emerging Infectious Diseases 2001, 7:369-374.
12. Ebdon J., Muniesa M., Taylor H. The application of a recently isolated strain of Bacteroides (GB-124) to identify human sources of faecal pollution in a temperate river catchment. Water Research 2007, 41:3683-3690.
13. Fisman D.N. Seasonality of infectious diseases. Annual Review of Public Health 2007, 28:127-143.
14. Furuse K. Distribution of coliphages in the environment: general considerations. Phage Ecology 1987, 87-124. John Wiley & Sons, NY, (Chapter 3). S.M. Goyal, C.P. Gerba, G. Bitton (Eds.).
15. Geldreich E.E., Kenner B.A. Concepts of faecal streptococci in stream pollution. Journal Water Pollution Control Federation 1969, 41:336-352.
16. Gordon D.M. Geographical structure and host specificity in bacteria and the implication for tracing the source of coliform contamination. Microbiology 2001, 147:1079-1085.
17. Grabow W.O.K. Bacteriophages: update on application as models for viruses in water. Water SA 2001, 27:251-268.
18. Jofre J., Stewart J.R., Grabow W. Phage methods. Microbial Source Tracking: Methods, Applications, and Case Studies 2011, 137-156. Springer, NY, (Chapter 6). C. Hagedorn, A.R. Blanch, V.J. Harwood (Eds.).
19. Leeming R., Ball A., Ashbolt N., Nichols P. Using faecal sterols from humans and animals to distinguish faecal pollution in receiving waters. Water Research 1996, 30:2893-2900.
20. Lodder W.J., de Roda A.M. Presence of noroviruses and other enteric viruses in sewage and surface water in the Netherlands. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 2005, 71:1453-1461.
21. Lucena F., Jofre J. Potential use of bacteriophages as indicators of water quality and wastewater treatment processes. Bacteriophages in the Control of Food- and Water-borne Pathogens 2010, 103-118. ASM Press, Washington DC. P.M. Sabour, M.W. Griffiths (Eds.).
22. Lucena F., Lasobras J., MacIntosh D., Forcadell M., Jofre J. Effect of the distance from the polluting focus on the relative concentration of Bacteroides fragilis phages and coliphages in mussels. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 1994, 60:2272-2277.
23. Malakoff D. Microbiologists on the trail of polluting bacteria. Science 2002, 295:2352-2353.
24. Mendez J., Audicana A., Isern A., Llanez J., Moreno B., Tarancón M.L., Jofre J., Lucena F. Standardised evaluation of the performance of a simple membrane filtration-elution method to concentrate bacteriophages from drinking water. Journal of Virological Methods 2004, 117:19-25.
25. Muniain-Mujika I., Gironés R., Tofiño-Quesada G., Calvo M., Lucena F. Depuration dynamics of viruses in shellfish. International Journal of Food Microbiology 2002, 77:125-133.
26. Newton R.J., VandeWalle J.L., Borchardt M.A., Gorelick M.H., McLellan S.L. Lacnospiraceae and Bacteroidales alternative faecal indicators reveal chronic human sewage contamination in an urban harbour. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 2011, 77:6972-6981.
27. Nieuwstad T.J., Mulder E.P., Havelaar A.H., van Olphen M. Elimination of microorganisms from wastewater by tertiary precipitation followed by filtration. Water Research 1988, 22:1389-1397.
28. Payán A., Ebdon J., Taylor H., Gantzer C., Ottoson J., Papageorgiou G.T., Blanch A.R., Lucena F., Jofre J., Muniesa M. Method for Isolation of Bacteroides bacteriophages host strains suitable for tracking sources of faecal pollution in water. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 2005, 71:5659-5662.
29. Puig A., Queralt N., Jofre J., Araujo R. Diversity of Bacteroides fragilis strains in their capacity to recover phages from human and animal wastes and from faecally polluted wastewater. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 1999, 65:1772-1776.
30. Purnell S.E., Ebdon J.E., Taylor H.D. Bacteriophage lysis of Enterococcus host strains: a tool for microbial source tracking. Environmental Science and Technology 2011, 45:10699-10705.
31. Sauer E.P., Bower P.A., Bootsma M.J., McLellan S.L. Detection of the human specific Bacteroides genetic marker provides evidence of widespread sewage contamination of stormwater in the urban environment. Water Research 2011, 45:2358-2394.
32. Simpson J.M., Santo Domingo J.W., Reasoner D.J. Microbial source tracking: state of the science. Environmental Science and Technology 2002, 36:5279-5288.
33. Tartera C., Jofre J. Bacteriophage active against Bacteroides fragilis in sewage polluted waters. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 1987, 53:1632-1637.
34. Tartera C., Lucena F., Jofre J. Human origin of Bacteroides fragilis bacteriophages present in the environment. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 1989, 55:2696-2701.
35. Tenaillon O., Skurnik D., Picard B., Denamur E. The population genetics of commensal Escherichia coli. Nature Reviews in Microbiology 2010, 8:207-217.
36. USEPA, 2004. Report to Congress. Impacts and control of CSOs and SSOs. EPA 833-R-04-001. Washington DC.
37. Vijayavel K., Fujioka R.S., Ebdon J., Taylor H. Isolation and characterization of Bacteroides host strain HB-73 used to detect sewage specific phages in Hawaii. Water Research 2010, 44:3714-3724.
38. Walters S.P., Field K.G. Survival and persistence of human and ruminant-specific faecal Bacteroidales in freshwater micrososmos. Environmental Microbiology 2009, 11:1410-1421.
39. WHO The Global Burden of Disease. 2004 Update 2008, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, [WWW document]. URL:. http://www.who.int/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/en/.
40. Wicki M., Auckenthaler A., Felleisen R., Tanner M., Baumgartner A. Novel Bacteroides host strain for detection of human- and animal-specific bacteriophages in water. Journal of Water and Health 2011, 9:159-168.