Hygienization by anaerobic digestion: Comparison between evaluation by cultivation and quantitative real-time PCR

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 52, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 93-99

  Lebuhn, M ^a   Effenberger, Mathias ^b   Garces G ^a   Gronauer, Andreas ^b   Wilderer, P A ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Institute of Agricultural Engineering   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active but not cultivable cells; Anaerobic digestion; Hygienization; Overestimation by qPCR; qPCR; Underestimation by cultivation

Indexed keywords

BIOGAS; CELL CULTURE; CELLS; DNA; FERMENTERS; MANURES; MICROORGANISMS; STRESSES;

CHARGE TRACING; HYGIENIZATION; QUANTITATIVE PCR;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION;

BIOGAS;

BIODEGRADATION;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; ANAEROBIC FERMENTATION; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA EXTRACTION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION MEDIUM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 25144455383     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2005.0503     Document Type: Article

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