Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in lake catchments, in river water abstracted for domestic use, and in effluent from domestic sewage treatment works: Diverse opportunities for environmental cycling and human exposure
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A study was carried out to test the presence of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in the catchment area and waters of the River Tywi and to follow the organism along the route from the abstraction point through the water treatment process and down to residues accumulated in domestic water systems. Also, its distribution was studied in the geographically and metrologically different catchment of Lake Windermere in the Lake District region of northwest England as well as in treated effluent from domestic sewage plants.
Publication Name: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0099-2240
Year: 2006
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Survival of nonculturable Aeromonas salmonicida in lake water
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The persistence of Aeromonas salmonicida in sterile and untreated lake water is discussed. A new viability assay was used to detect viable membranous cells from nonculturable A. salmonicida. Culture and direct detection of plasmid and chromosomal DNA was used to directly detect A. salmonicida and monitor its adaptation in mixed populations by polymerase chain reaction. Only the presence of the cells could be confirmed by the technique.
Publication Name: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0099-2240
Year: 1993
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Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in the catchment area and water of the river Taff in South Wales, United Kingdom, and its potential relationship to clustering of Crohn's disease cases in the city of Cardiff
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Taff water above Cardiff are sampled twice weekly from November 2001 to November 2002 to detect the Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis by IS900 PCR and culture. Parallel study revealed that M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis remained culturable in lake water microcosms for 632 days and persisted to 841 days.
Publication Name: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0099-2240
Year: 2005
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