“…infective successful routes when present on sand beaches where dogs or cats have defecated and people come in direct contact with it (Blank et al, 1959;Ma, 1987;Mukaratirwa and Taruvinga, 1999). Zhu et al (2011) performed a model study to understand the impact of non-point pollution (from bather shedding, animals' feces, near shore sand and other environmental conditions) on the transport of bioindicators at a subtropical recreational marine beach in South Florida.…”