Conference Proceedings · 2024
A Case for Optics-based Microbial Risk Assessment of Potable Water
Rijan Maharjan, Anusa Thapa, Prajwal Rajbhandari, Daniele Faccio, Emiliano R. Martins, Thomas F Krauss, and Ashim Dhakal
CLEO 2024 Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2024), paper ATu4A.2
Reagentless optics-based techniques, such as fluorimetry, outperform all current methods in all key requirement categories for microbial risk assessment of potable water in resource-limited settings, provided that their specificity for viable bacteria is improved.