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Saliva-based immunoassay of waterborne pathogen exposure
Citation:
Augustine, S. AND K. Simmons. Saliva-based immunoassay of waterborne pathogen exposure. Chapter 1, McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology 2013. McGraw-Hill Companies, New York, NY, 2013:330-333, (2013).
Impact/Purpose:
This is an invited paper commissioned by McGraw-Hill. The content is geared towards scientifically literate non-practitioners from high school students to professionals looking for an authoritative source of information on the subject.
Description:
Water is our most important resource and ensuring its safety, security and sustainability is a global priority. Of almost equal importance is the protection of the global community from microbiological and chemical contaminants in our drinking and recreational water sources. Methods that are rapid, cost-effective, sensitive, use a non-invasively collected matrix and can detect multiple pathogens simultaneously are needed to assess human risk of exposure to environmental contamination. The saliva-based multiplex immunoassay method described below addresses all of these concerns.