Ruminants Contribute Fecal Contamination to the Urban Household Environment in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 4642-4649

  Harris, Angela R ^a   Pickering, Amy J ^a,b   Harris, Michael ^b   Doza, Solaiman ^c   Islam, M Sirajul ^c   Unicomb, Leanne ^d   Luby, Stephen ^b   Davis, Jennifer ^a,b   Boehm, Alexandria B ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY REACTIONS; CONTAMINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOORS; MAMMALS;

DOMESTIC ANIMALS; FECAL CONTAMINATION; FECAL INDICATOR BACTERIA; MEAN CONCENTRATIONS; MICROBIAL SOURCE TRACKING; MOST PROBABLE NUMBER; POOR PERFORMANCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

PALMPRINT RECOGNITION;

BACTERIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FECES; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; LOW INCOME HOUSING; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; RUMINANT; TRACKING; URBAN ECOSYSTEM;

BACTEROIDALES; BANGLADESH; BIRD; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; CROSS REACTION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPOSURE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FECES; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MOST PROBABLE NUMBER; RUMINANT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ANIMAL; BACTEROIDETES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MICROBIOLOGY;

BANGLADESH; DHAKA [BANGLADESH];

ANIMALIA; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDALES; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANIMALS; BACTEROIDETES; BANGLADESH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; HUMANS; RUMINANTS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84968718488     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b06282     Document Type: Article

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