Identification of nonpoint sources of fecal pollution in coastal waters by using host-specific 16S ribosomal DNA genetic markers from fecal anaerobes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1587-1594

  Bernhard, Anne E ^a   Field, Katharine G ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

COASTAL WATERS; FECES; GENETIC MARKER; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTION MONITORING;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; FECES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PREVOTELLA; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEASHORE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BACTEROIDES; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CATTLE; CHILD; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FECES; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PREVOTELLA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; NEGIBACTERIA; PREVOTELLA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0034126848     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.4.1587-1594.2000     Document Type: Article

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