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Correlation with
pathogens or
waterborne disease

Valuable model for viral
contamination and inactivation
due to their physical
resemblance

Relate to the level of human
enteric viral pollution

No available data on
correlations with the
presence of pathogens and
public health risk

Applied methodology Expensive and labor-intensive

recovering methods
complicated by low number
in feces and environments;
molecular- and culture-based
analytical methods

Complex methodology and
large sample volume for
recovery with low number in
environmental samples at low
levels of fecal
pollution; molecular- and
culture-based analytical
methods

Sensitive and simple
analytical method using a
gas chromatography-mass
spectrometry (GC-MS);
lack of studies on host
specificity

Source: Adapted from Table 1 from Ref. 13.