TABLE 3.
Host sensitivity of sewage-associated marker genes in human feces and untreated wastewater samples
| Human fecal samples/performance characteristic | No. of samples collected | No. (%) of samples positive for marker gene: |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HF183 | BacV6-21 | Lachno3 | HAdV | HPyV | CPQ_056 | ||
| Human feces | 29 | 21 (72.4) | 20 (68.9) | 0 (0) | 11 (37.9) | ||
| True positive | 21 | 20 | 0 | 11 | |||
| False negative | 8 | 9 | 19 | 18 | |||
| Host sensitivity | 0.72 | 0.69 | 0 | 0.38 | |||
| Untreated wastewater | 3 | 3 (100) | 3 (100) | 3 (100) | 3 (100) | 3 (100) | 3 (100) |
| True positive | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | |
| False negative | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Host sensitivity | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | |