ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2009
Thermotolerant coliforms are not a good surrogate for Campylobacter spp. in environmental water.
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- Detection of Campylobacter spp. in water by dead-end ultrafiltration and application at farm level.Journal of applied microbiology · 2019Article
- Campylobacteriosis Outbreak Associated with Contaminated Municipal Water Supply - Nebraska, 2017.MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report · 2019Article
- Estimating the burden of acute gastrointestinal illness due to Giardia, Cryptosporidium, Campylobacter, E. coli O157 and norovirus associated with private wells and small water systems in Canada.Epidemiology and infection · 2016Article
- Environmental monitoring of waterborne Campylobacter: evaluation of the Australian standard and a hybrid extraction-free MPN-PCR method.Frontiers in microbiology · 2015Article
- Effect of incubation temperature on the detection of thermophilic campylobacter species from freshwater beaches, nearby wastewater effluents, and bird fecal droppings.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2013Article
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- Potential human pathogenic bacteria in a mixed urban watershed as revealed by pyrosequencing.PloS one · 2013Article
- Use of amplified-fragment length polymorphism to study the ecology of Campylobacter jejuni in environmental water and to predict multilocus sequence typing clonal complexes.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2012Article
- Megacities as sources for pathogenic bacteria in rivers and their fate downstream.International journal of microbiology · 2011Article
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Abstract
This study aimed to assess the importance of quantitatively detecting Campylobacter spp. in environmental surface water. The prevalence and the quantity of Campylobacter spp., thermotolerant coliforms, and Escherichia coli in 2,471 samples collected weekly, over a 2-year period, from 13 rivers and 12 streams in the Eastern Townships, Québec, Canada, were determined. Overall, 1,071 (43%), 1,481 (60%), and 1,463 (59%) samples were positive for Campylobacter spp., thermotolerant coliforms, and E. coli, respectively. There were weak correlations between the weekly distributions of Campylobacter spp. and thermotolerant coliforms (Spearman's rho coefficient = 0.27; P = 0.008) and between the quantitative levels of the two classes of organisms (Kendall tau-b correlation coefficient = 0.233; P < 0.0001). Well water samples from the Eastern Townships were also tested. Five (10%) of 53 samples from private surface wells were positive for Campylobacter jejuni, of which only 2 were positive for thermotolerant coliforms. These findings suggest that microbial monitoring of raw water by using only fecal indicator organisms is not sufficient for assessing the occurrence or the load of thermophilic Campylobacter spp. Insights into the role of environmental water as sources for sporadic Campylobacter infection will require genus-specific monitoring techniques.
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