Assessment of the decay rates of microbial source tracking molecular markers and faecal indicator bacteria from different sources

Evaluate the T90 and compare the decay of different faecal indicator bacteria (FIB) and molecular microbial source tracking (MST) markers of human and animal sources during summer and winter. The persistence of Escherichia coli and enterococci and several MST molecular markers targeting host‐specific Bifidobacterium and Bacteroidales species (BifHM, BifCW, BifPL, HF183/BFD, Rum2Bac and Pig2Bac) was assessed at the same time using mesocosms....