The new year kicked off with the first Viraqua project publication with Kata Farkas, Francis Hassard, James McDonald, Shelagh Malham and Davey Jones all co-authors on a paper in Frontiers in Microbiology evaluating molecular methods for the detection and quantification of pathogen-derived nucleic acids in sediment.” Full references can be found on our publications page.
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The last week has see
n two new project publications; David Lees is co-author of a paper modelling risk factors for norovirus contamination of shellfish water http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2016.10.028 whilst Kata Farkas, Davey Jones, Shelagh Malham and James McDonald are all co-authors of a review paper addressing the abundance and distribution of enteric bacteria and viruses in coastal and estuarine sediments http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01692 Full references to both papers can be seen on our publications page http://www.viraqua.uk/publications/.