Integrated analysis of established and novel microbial and chemical methods for microbial source tracking

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 5915-5926

  Blanch, Anicet R ^a   Belanche Muñoz, Lluís ^b   Bonjoch, Xavier ^a   Ebdon, James ^c   Gantzer, Christophe ^d   Lucena, Francisco ^a   Ottoson, Jakob ^e   Kourtis, Christos ^f   Iversen, Aina ^g   Kühn, Inger ^g   Mocé, Laura ^a   Muniesa, Maite ^a   Schwartzbrod, Janine ^d   Skraber, Sylvain ^d   Papageorgiou, Georgios T ^f   Taylor, Huw ^c   Wallis, Jessica ^c   Jofre, Joan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^d Laboratoire de Chimie Physique et Microbiologie pour l'Environnement   (France)

^e SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^f State General Laboratory of Cyprus   (Cyprus)

^g KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDICATORS (CHEMICAL); LEARNING SYSTEMS; RNA; SLURRIES; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; HUMAN FECAL SOURCES; SOMATIC COLIPHAGES;

WATER BACTERIOLOGY;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FECAL COLIFORM; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; SLURRY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WASTEWATER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BACTEROIDES THETAIOTAOMICRON; BIFIDOBACTERIACEAE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM ADOLESCENTIS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM DENTIUM; CLOSTRIDIA; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; COLIPHAGE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENTEROCOCCACEAE; EUROPE; FECES; GENOTYPE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SLUDGE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WASTE WATER; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BACTERIOPHAGES; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROCOCCUS; EUROPE; FECES; HUMANS; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; PHENOTYPE; STEROLS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BACTEROIDES THETAIOTAOMICRON; BIFIDOBACTERIUM ADOLESCENTIS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM DENTIUM; CLOSTRIDIA;

EID: 33748772520     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02453-05     Document Type: Article

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