title: Toward a better guard of coastal water safety-Microbial distribution in coastal water and their facile detection.
abstract: Prosperous development in marine-based tourism has raised increasing concerns over the sanitary quality of coastal waters with potential microbial contamination. The World Health Organization has set stringent standards over a list of pathogenic microorganisms posing potential threats to people with frequent coastal water exposure and has asked for efficient detection procedures for pathogen facile identification. Inspection of survey events regarding the occurrence of marine pathogens in recreational beaches in recent years has reinforced the need for the development of a rapid identification procedure. In this review, we examine the possibility of recruiting uniform molecular assays to identify different marine pathogens and the feasibility of appropriate biomarkers, including enterochelin biosynthetic genes, for general toxicity assays. The focus is not only on bacterial pathogens but also on other groups of infectious pathogens. The ultimate goal is the development of a handy method to more efficiently and rapidly detect marine pathogens.
authors.affiliation: Tianjin University Center for Marine Environmental Ecology, School of Environmental Science & Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China.
authors.forename: Yunxuan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.affiliation: South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China.
authors.forename: Ning
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Qiu
authors.affiliation: Tianjin University Center for Marine Environmental Ecology, School of Environmental Science & Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China. Electronic address: gywang@tju.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Guangyi
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D001493:Bathing Beaches / Q000592:standards*; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D011998:Recreation; D012623:Seawater / Q000382:microbiology*; D014871:Water Microbiology
keywords: Beach; Enterochelin synthase; Pathogen; Quantitative polymerase chain reaction; Salmonella; Staphylococcus aureus; Vibrio