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Although humans have been protected from consuming infectious par-
ticles from water bodies through water treatment and fecal source tracking
using indicator organism, the paradigm has shifted to being able to directly
detect the pathogen. With biosensors, microfluidic processing, and nano-
technology advancing in leaps and bounds, it is reasonable to assume that
this vision is not too far in the future.
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