ARPHA Conference Abstracts :
Conference Abstract
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Corresponding author: Zamfira Stupar (zamfira.dinca@icia.ro), Emilia Neag (emilia.neag@icia.ro)
Received: 30 Jun 2022 | Published: 14 Jul 2022
© 2022 Zamfira Stupar, Erika Levei, Emilia Neag, Oana Teodora Moldovan
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Citation:
Stupar Z, Levei E, Neag E, Moldovan OT (2022) Quantitative microbial risk assessment as a tool for groundwater monitoring. A case study in the rural communities of Romania. ARPHA Conference Abstracts 5: e89699. https://doi.org/10.3897/aca.5.e89699
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Karst springs are an essential source of drinking water in rural communities in North-Western Romania. Due to the fractured dolomite aquifers, dolines, or blind valleys, these springs are vulnerable to contamination by human and zoonotic pathogens. In this study, we assessed the human health risk associated with the contamination of six springs’ water with gastrointestinal pathogens. The data on the occurrence of E. coli and estimated Campylobacter and Rotavirus for a year of monitoring from twenty-four samples were inputted into a Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment (QMRA) model (
karst springs, Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment (QMRA), E. coli, Campylobacter, Rotavirus, rural communities, drinking water
Zamfira Stupar
25th International Conference on Subterranean Biology (Cluj-Napoca, 18-22 July 2022)
EEA Financial Mechanism 2014–2021 and
Core Research Programme 2020-2024
Project GROUNDWATERISK “Monitoring and risk assessment for groundwater sources in rural communities of Romania (project number EEA-RO-NO-2018-0138 contract No. 4/2019)
Project “Research in optoelectronics and related fields regarding the creation and dissemination of new knowledge, technologies, infrastructures for the promotion of open science and contributions to solve the global challenges” (project number PN 19-18.01.01 contract No. 18N/08.02.2019)
None declared.