Journal
WATER ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH
Volume 92, Issue 1, Pages 35-41Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/wer.1209
Keywords
crAssphage; freshwater; method recovery; microbial source tracking; sea water; wastewater
Funding
- Chulabhorn Research Institute [BT 2017-01]
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Pinpointing water pollution sources using host-specific gastrointestinal microbes, known as microbial source tracking (MST), have significant benefits for countries with water quality management issues related to pollution. A recently discovered bacteriophage, crAssphage, shows promise as a human-specific MST marker. However, loss of genetic materials during the recovery and the detection processes could alter the ability to measure virus quantities in a water sample. This study determined the crAssphage recovery efficiencies in water sources, including seawater, freshwater, and influent and effluent from a wastewater treatment plant, by spiking natural crAssphage concentrates prior to DNA extraction and quantitative PCR analysis. The results showed that river and seawater with no or low crAssphage background experienced no recovery loss. Evaluating recovery efficiencies in samples with high crAssphage backgrounds posed a challenge due to the inability to prepare high crAssphage titers. This study highlights the importance of intra-laboratory assessment of recovery efficiency in environmental samples for retrieving absolute crAssphage quantification with correction of bias among water samples and increase in data accuracy. (C) 2019 Water Environment Federation
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