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Recreational water monitoring: Nanofluidic qRT‐PCR chip for assessing beach water safety



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  • Journal Title:
    Environmental DNA
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  • NOAA Program & Office:
    CIGLR (Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research)
  • Description:
    Improved recreational water monitoring using rapid molecular genetic methods would decrease both public health risks and unnecessary beach closures. Hence, we developed a novel nanofluidic quantitative real‐time PCR (qPCR) in the OpenArray platform to (a) detect and quantify fecal indicator bacteria (FIBs; N = 2), (b) identify contaminant sources (microbial source tracking (MST); N = 7), and (c) detect human virulent pathogens (virulence gene markers; N = 15). Our water monitoring OpenArray plate reliably detects as few as two template copies/hole (OpenArray® well), with some marker sensitivities as low as single‐copy detection. The OpenArray plate showed high target sequence specificity and returned expected patterns of contaminants for fecal and sewage samples. We found Canada geese and seagulls were the leading causes of contamination at beaches that tested positive for coliforms. When we incorporated robotic DNA extraction, we were able to process samples from water to FIBs, MST, and waterborne pathogen detection and quantification within four hours. Our monitoring TaqMan qPCR assays in the OpenArray platform is uniquely valuable for regulatory agencies charged with beach water safety as well as for researchers interested in human health implications of aquatic microbial community structure.
  • Source:
    Environmental DNA, 1(4), 305-315
  • DOI:
  • ISSN:
    2637-4943 ; 2637-4943
  • Format:
    pdf
  • Publisher:
    Wiley
  • Document Type:
    Journal Article
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  • Rights Information:
    CC BY
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    Library
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