Journal of Water and Health

Volume 1 Number 4
December 2003

Contents

141

Evaluation of microbial source tracking methods using mixed fecal sources in aqueous test samples

John F. Griffith, Stephen B. Weisberg and Charles D. McGee

153

Phenotypic library-based microbial source tracking methods: Efficacy in the California collaborative study

Valerie J. Harwood, Bruce Wiggins, Charles Hagedorn, R. D. Ellender, Jan Gooch, James Kern, Mansour Samadpour, Annie C. H. Chapman, Brian J. Robinson and Brian C.Thompson

167

Comparison of genotypic-based microbial source tracking methods requiring a host origin database

Samuel P. Myoda, C. Andrew Carson, Jeffry J. Fuhrmann, Byoung-Kwon Hahm, Peter G. Hartel, Helen Yampara-Iquise, LeeAnn Johnson, Robin L. Kuntz, Cindy H. Nakatsu, Michael J. Sadowsky and Mansour Samadpour

181

A comparative study of culture-independent, library-independent genotypic methods of fecal source tracking

Katharine G. Field, Eunice C. Chern, Linda K. Dick, Jed Fuhrman, John Griffith, Patricia A. Holden, Michael G. LaMontagne, Betty Olson, Michael T. Simonich

195

Use of viral pathogens and indicators to differentiate between human and non-human fecal contamination in a microbial source tracking comparison study

Rachel T. Noble, Steven M. Allen, Angelia D. Blackwood, Weiping Chu, Sunny C. Jiang, Greg L. Lovelace, Mark D. Sobsey, Jill R. Stewart and Douglas A. Wait

209

Assessment of statistical methods used in library-based approaches to microbial source tracking

Kerry J. Ritter, Ethan Carruthers, C. Andrew Carson, R. D. Ellender, Valerie J. Harwood, Kyle Kingsley, Cindy Nakatsu, Michael Sadowsky, Brian Shear, Brian West, John E. Whitlock, Bruce A. Wiggins and Jayson D. Wilbur

225

Recommendations for microbial source tracking: Lessons from a methods comparison study

Jill R. Stewart, R. D. Ellender, Janet A. Gooch, Sunny Jiang, Samuel P. Myoda and Stephen B. Weisberg