Sentences with phrase «by fecal contamination»

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Technology capable of sampling water systems to find indicators of fecal matter contamination that are thousandths and even millionths of times smaller than those found by conventional methods is being developed by a team of researchers at Texas A&M University.

The virus is spread by fecal oral contamination.

Study results were based on suppression of fecal egg counts (FEC) to help understand the biological impact of anthelmintic treatment choice on parasite egg shedding and pasture contamination created by the herd.

Most of these parasites are spread by fecal - oral contamination - stepping on another animal's stool, then grooming the paws and ingesting it, such as sharing a litterbox, or by eating grass that some animal has defecated on up to 2 years earlier, because that is how long some eggs can exist in the environment.

These parasites are transmitted by fecal to oral contamination from infested dogs.

Toxoplasmosis is a protozoan parasite acquired either by eating raw meat or through fecal contamination.

[FN11] Additionally, cat scratch fever, hookworms, roundworms and toxoplasmosis may be transmitted to other animals and people through scratches, bites and fecal contamination by cats.

For example, stormwater across the city of Milwaukee recently showed high human fecal pathogen levels at all 45 outflow locations, indicating widespread sewage contamination.87 One study estimated that increased storm events will lead to an increase of up to 120 % in combined sewer overflows into Lake Michigan by 2100 under a very high emissions scenario (A1FI), 57 leading to additional human health issues and beach closures.