Evaluation of repetitive extragenic palindromic-PCR for discrimination of fecal Escherichia coli from humans, and different domestic- and wild-animals

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 733-740

  Mohapatra, Bidyut Ranjan ^a   Broersma, Klaas ^b   Nordin, Rick ^a   Mazumder, Asit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; Fecal pollution; Molecular typing; Rep PCR DNA fingerprinting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LATRANS; EQUIDAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MARMOTA; ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS; PROCYON; URSUS AMERICANUS;

EID: 34548236950     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: 13480421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2007.tb03962.x     Document Type: Article

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