Direct comparison of four bacterial source tracking methods and use of composite data sets

Journal of Applied Microbiology

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 350-364

  Casarez, E A ^a   Pillai, S D ^b   Mott, J B ^c   Vargas, M ^d   Dean, K E ^d   Di Giovanni, G D ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus polymerase chain reaction; Escherichia coli; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis; Ribotyping; Water quality faecal pollution

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POLLUTION; ANIMALS; ANTIBIOTICS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); ELECTROPHORESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SEWAGE; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ANTIBIOTICS RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL SOURCE TRACKING; COMPOSITE DATA SETS; E. COLI; ENTEROBACTERIAL REPETITIVE INTERGENIC CONSENSUS POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; FECAL POLLUTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RIBOTYPING; TRACKING METHOD; WATER QUALITY FECAL POLLUTION;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; DOMESTIC WASTE; ELECTROKINESIS; FECAL COLIFORM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LIVESTOCK; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRACKING; WATER QUALITY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CATTLE; ENTEROBACTERIAL REPETITIVE INTERGENIC CONSENSUS SEQUENCE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIRBY BAUER ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE ANALYSIS; LIVESTOCK; NONHUMAN; PET ANIMAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RIBOTYPING; SEWAGE; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT; WILDLIFE;

AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 34447529383     PISSN: 13645072     EISSN: 13652672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2672.2006.03246.x     Document Type: Article

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