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Relating MST Results to Fecal Indicator Bacteria, Pathogens, and Standards

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The regulation of coastal, inland, and flowing waters through the assessment of fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) alone, while protective of public health, provides little information regarding contamination sources. The most effective protection of public health comes through the identification and mitigation or removal of the pollution source. Methods capable of assigning relative contributions to contamination from a variety of sources would be most beneficial to practitioners, as water-body health frequently suffers due to multiple inputs rather than a single, readily identifiable hazard (i.e., point source). The contribution of various potential sources to nonpoint source pollution, particularly in a comingled environment, is difficult to assess. Microbial source tracking (MST) offers the potential to distinguish between the multiple sources of catchment (watershed) fecal indicator sources to inform remediation strategies. Under ideal circumstances, FIB concentrations would relate to pathogen and MST marker survival, persistence, and ecology in aquatic habitats targeting source identification, attenuation, and thereby reduction of human health risk.

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