Microbial source tracking: Current methodology and future directions

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 5796-5803

  Scott, Troy M ^a,c   Rose, Joan B ^a   Jenkins, Tracie M ^a   Farrah, Samuel R ^b   Lukasik, Jerzy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Biological Consulting Services   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CAFFEINE;

MICROBIAL ACTIVITY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; GENOTYPE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLLUTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RIBOTYPING; SHORT SURVEY; STREPTOCOCCUS; WATER QUALITY;

ANIMALS; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; COLIPHAGES; ENTEROVIRUS; FECES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOTYPING;

BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0036946650     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.68.12.5796-5803.2002     Document Type: Short Survey

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