Assessment of equine fecal contamination: The search for alternative bacterial source-tracking targets

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 65-75

  Simpson, Joyce M ^a   Santo Domingo, Jorge W ^a   Reasoner, Donald J ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rDNA; Bacteroides; Horse manure; Source tracking; Watershed

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

FECAL COLIFORM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MANURE; POLLUTION MONITORING; PROVENANCE; WATERSHED;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTEROIDES; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; EUBACTERIUM; FECES ANALYSIS; HORSE; MANURE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PREVOTELLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATERSHED;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTEROIDES; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FECES; FRESH WATER; GENE LIBRARY; HORSES; HUMANS; MANURE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PREVOTELLA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; WATER POLLUTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; BOVINAE; ENVIRONMENTAL SEQUENCE; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PREVOTELLA; PREVOTELLA SP.; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 1642283655     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6496(03)00250-2     Document Type: Article

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