Molecular biology and DNA microarray technology for microbial quality monitoring of water

Critical Reviews in Microbiology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 145-172

  Lemarchand, Karine ^a,b   Masson, Luke ^a   Brousseau, Roland ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

Author keywords

DNA; Indicators; Molecular Detection; Water Bourne Pathogens; Water Quality

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; SULFITE;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; BACTEROIDES; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; CELL; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISINFECTION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA MICROARRAY; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES MICROFLORA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEALTH HAZARD; HEAT TOLERANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PATHOGENICITY; POLLUTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; RHODOCOCCUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS; VIRUS; WASTE WATER; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATER TREATMENT;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIOPHAGES; FRESH WATER; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PARASITES; VIRUSES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; RHODOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 4344642211     PISSN: 1040841X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10408410490435142     Document Type: Review

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