Source identification of airborne Escherichia coli of swine house surroundings using ERIC-PCR and REP-PCR

Environmental Research

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 511-517

  Duan, Huiyong ^a,b   Chai, Tongjie ^a   Liu, Jianzhu ^a   Zhang, Xingxiao ^a   Qi, Chunhua ^a   Gao, Jing ^c   Wang, Yaling ^d   Cai, Yumei ^a   Miao, Zengmin ^a   Yao, Meiling ^a   Schlenker, Gerd ^e  

^a SHANDONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Jining Agricultural School ^*  (China)

^c Central Hospital of Taian City   (China)

^d DALIAN NATIONALITIES UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Airborne Escherichia coli; ERIC PCR; REP PCR; Source identification; Swine house

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

AIR QUALITY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FECAL PELLET; GENETIC VARIATION; MICROORGANISM; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AIR SAMPLER; AIR SAMPLING; AIRBORNE BACTERIUM; AMBIENT AIR; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENTEROBACTERIAL REPETITIVE INTERGENIC CONSENSUS POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES CULTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MANURE; NONHUMAN; PIG FARMING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPETITIVE EXTRAGENIC PALINDROMIC POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SUIDAE;

EID: 67349221251     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2009.02.014     Document Type: Article

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