2024 journal article

Enteric Pathogens in Humans, Domesticated Animals, and Drinking Water in a Low-Income Urban Area of Nairobi, Kenya

Environmental Science & Technology.

By: S. Daly n, B. Chieng*, S. Araka*, J. Mboya*, C. Imali*, J. Swarthout*, S. Njenga*, A. Pickering*, A. Harris n

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Added: November 26, 2024

To explore the sources of and associated risks with drinking water contamination in low-income, densely populated urban areas, we collected human feces, domesticated animal feces, and source and stored drinking water samples in Nairobi, Kenya in 2019; and analyzed them using microbial source tracking (MST) and enteric pathogen TaqMan Array Cards (TACs). We established host-pathogen relationships in this setting, including detecting