Real-time PCR detection and quantification of nine potential sources of fecal contamination by analysis of mitochondrial Cytochrome b targets

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 5229-5234

  Schill, William B ^a   Mathes, Melvin V ^b  

^a LEETOWN SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; COSMIC RAYS; DNA; NUCLEIC ACIDS; ORGANIC ACIDS; POLLUTION DETECTION;

CYTOCHROME B; FECAL CONTAMINATION; MITOCHONDRIAL CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA (MTDNA); POTENTIAL SOURCES; REAL-TIME PCR; VERTEBRATE SPECIES; WHITE-TAILED DEER;

DNA SEQUENCES;

CYTOCHROME B; GROUND WATER; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; SURFACE WATER;

BIOASSAY; CATTLE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DETECTION METHOD; FECES; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME;

ARTICLE; FECES; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEWAGE; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FECES; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEWAGE;

BOS; BRANTA CANADENSIS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; EQUIDAE; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; OVIS ARIES; SUIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 48249129596     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es800051z     Document Type: Article

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