![]() Together with our project partners in Mozambique (WE Consult and AIAS) we have received a subsidy from VIA Water om in Mozambique met DNA-methodes de microbiële waterkwaliteit te meten. to measure the microbial water quality in Mozambique using DNA methods. At the present time water quality is determined through the measurement of E. coli. E. coli is an indicator organism for faecal contamination of water. Present methods do not look at other pathogens and are not practical in the field. New DNA detection technology produces more and more accurate data on water quality that are available digitally within a couple of hours. The project therefore focuses on this. “Data will be the lifeblood of decision-making and the raw material for accountability in a post-2015 era.”
– Jan Eliasson (2015, UN Deputy Secretary-General from 2012 to 2016) We will concentrate on demonstrating ‘the usual suspects’ such as E. coli and Salmonella, but also on new water pathogens for which there is little data available because these cannot be (easily) cultivated. Furthermore, in Mozambique we will test a mobile DNA analysis device that can be used by non-specialists to generate data in the field quickly and easily – ideal in a land with few laboratories. |
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