Use of Bifidobacterium dentium as an indicator of the origin of fecal water pollution

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2651-2656

  Nebra, Yolanda ^a   Bonjoch, Xavier ^a   Blanch, Anicet R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; RNA; WATER POLLUTION;

HYBRIDIZATION;

MICROBIOLOGY;

BIOINDICATOR; DETECTION METHOD; FECAL COLIFORM; WATER POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BIFIDO BACTERIUM GLOBOSUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM ANIMALIS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM ASTEROIDES; BIFIDOBACTERIUM CORYNEFORME; BIFIDOBACTERIUM CUNICULI; BIFIDOBACTERIUM DENTIUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM MAGNUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM MINIMUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM SUBTILE; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; FECES MICROFLORA; GENE PROBE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GOAT; NONHUMAN; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; DNA PROBES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FECES; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEWAGE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BIFIDOBACTERIUM ANIMALIS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM ASTEROIDES; BIFIDOBACTERIUM CORYNEFORME; BIFIDOBACTERIUM CUNICULI; BIFIDOBACTERIUM DENTIUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM MAGNUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM MINIMUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM PSEUDOLONGUM SUBSP. GLOBOSUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM SUBTILE; BOS TAURUS; CAPRA HIRCUS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0037883381     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.5.2651-2656.2003     Document Type: Article

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