Objective
Most communities living in slum areas along Nairobi river and Nakivumbu wetland use untreated water for drinking and for domestic activities. Pesticide residues, pathogenic bacteria, and heavy metals are thus a major health concern. Present day assessment of contamination relies on culture methods and chemical analysis despite low reliability for detection of bacteria and their pathogenicity. It is our objective to develop and adapt molecular based methods to identify and quantify pesticide residues and pathogenic bacteria directly in given environmental water samples and to assess the state of health. We will combine phage antibody technology, 16s rDNA and rRNA sequences to identify the pesticides, indicate bacterial activity and assess infection risks. These will be combined with biosensor technologies to rapidly monitor the health of the water environment. The applicability will be tested in Nairobi river and Nakivumbu wetland.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering sensors biosensors
- natural sciences biological sciences microbiology bacteriology
- natural sciences biological sciences microbiology virology
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences environmental sciences pollution
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Coordinator
85764 OBERSCHLEISSHEIM
Germany
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