Traditional fecal transplants help restore this balance ... The researchers used a specialized device called a chemostat to continuously culture gut microbes and their associated viruses.

Conventionally, testing for fecal contamination involves detecting fecal indicator bacteria (FIB), such as E. coli, by adding a drop of the sample water into a microbial culture medium. While FIB ...

Conventional bacterial culture remains the gold standard for the aforementioned detection, even though stool culture has relatively low sensitivity and requires a significant amount of labor.