Human and animal fecal contamination of community water sources, stored drinking water and hands in rural India measured with validated microbial source tracking assays

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 509-516

  Schriewer, Alexander ^b   Odagiri, Mitsunori ^b   Wuertz, Stefan ^b   Misra, Pravas R ^b   Panigrahi, Pinaki ^b   Clasen, Thomas ^b   Jenkins, Marion W ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER;

ANIMAL FECES; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTEROIDALES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FECAL COLIFORM; FECES; HAND; HEALTH HAZARD; HOME; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN FECES; INDIA; INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA; MICROBIAL SOURCE TRACKING ASSAY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; POND; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL POPULATION; SEASON; STORAGE; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY; ANIMAL; DIARRHEA; HAND WASHING; MICROBIOLOGY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANIMALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIARRHEA; DRINKING WATER; FECES; HAND; HAND HYGIENE; HUMANS; INDIA; RURAL POPULATION; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84941575814     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: 14761645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.14-0824     Document Type: Article

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