Detection of viral pathogens by reverse transcriptase PCR and of microbial indicators by standard methods in the canals of the Florida Keys

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 4118-4125

  Griffin, Dale W ^a   Gibson III, Charles J ^a   Lipp, Erin K ^a   Riley, Kelley ^a   Paul III, John H ^a   Rose, Joan B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; ENTERIC VIRUS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UNITED STATES; VIRUS DETECTION; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; ENTEROVIRUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; NEGIBACTERIA; NORWALK VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES; SMALL ROUND STRUCTURED VIRUS;

EID: 0032863422     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.9.4118-4125.1999     Document Type: Article

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