Development of Bacteroides 16S rRNA gene taqman-based real-time PCR assays for estimation of total, human, and bovine fecal pollution in water

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 4214-4224

  Layton, Alice ^a   McKay, Larry ^a   Williams, Dan ^a   Garrett, Victoria ^a   Gentry, Randall ^a,b   Sayler, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLBAC ASSAYS; BACTEROIDES; HUBAC ASSAYS; PCR ASSAYS;

BIOASSAY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DNA; EXTRACTION; GENES; RNA; WATER POLLUTION; WATERSHEDS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

CREEK WATER; RNA 16S; TAQ POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BIOASSAY; BIOINDICATOR; BIOMONITORING; CATTLE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FECAL COLIFORM; POLLUTION MONITORING; STREAMWATER; WATER POLLUTION; WATERSHED;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTEROIDES; BIOASSAY; CATTLE; CROSS AMPLIFICATION; CROSS REACTION; DNA EXTRACTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FECES; FECES MICROFLORA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HORSE; HOST RANGE; HUMAN; INDICATOR ORGANISM; LIVESTOCK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA 16S GENE; SWINE; WATER POLLUTION; WATERSHED;

ANIMALS; BACTEROIDES; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FECES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; WATER POLLUTION;

BACTEROIDES; BOS TAURUS; EQUIDAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 33745153077     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01036-05     Document Type: Article

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