Eukaryotic viruses in wastewater samples from the United States

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1402-1409

  Symonds, Erin M ^a   Griffin, Dale W ^b   Breitbart, Mya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL INDICATORS; FECAL CONTAMINATIONS; FECAL POLLUTIONS; FINAL EFFLUENTS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN FECAL; MONITORING WATER QUALITIES; NOROVIRUSES; PATHOGENIC VIRUS; RAW SEWAGES; ROTAVIRUSES; SEQUENCE DIVERSITIES; WASTEWATER SAMPLES; WATER QUALITY ASSESSMENTS;

EFFLUENTS; SEWAGE; VIRUSES; WASTEWATER; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

POLLUTION DETECTION;

BIOINDICATOR; DECISION MAKING; DETECTION METHOD; FECES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEWAGE; VIRUS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

DNA, VIRAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEWAGE; UNITED STATES; VIRUSES;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROVIRUS; EUKARYOTA; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; MORBILLIVIRUS; ORTHOREOVIRUS; PAPILLOMAVIRIDAE; ROTAVIRUS;

EID: 61649093088     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01899-08     Document Type: Article

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