High-throughput and quantitative procedure for determining sources of Escherichia coli in waterways by using host-specific DNA marker genes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 890-896

  Yan, Tao ^a   Hamilton, Matthew J ^a   Sadowsky, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEACHES; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; STATISTICAL METHODS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

DNA MARKER GENES; GEESE; GENE PROBES; MACROARRAY HYBRIDIZATION SYSTEMS;

BIOMARKERS;

DNA;

BEACH; BIOINDICATOR; DNA; FECAL COLIFORM; GENE; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; HYBRIDIZATION; LAKE WATER; POINT SOURCE; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HOST RANGE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASHORE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING;

ANIMALS; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA PROBES; DUCKS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FRESH WATER; GEESE; HUMANS; MINNESOTA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ROBOTICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER POLLUTION;

MINNESOTA; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; SOUTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33846935696     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01395-06     Document Type: Article

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