Quantitative PCR for genetic markers of human fecal pollution

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 5507-5513

  Shanks, Orin C ^a   Kelty, Catherine A ^a   Sivaganesan, Mano ^a   Varma, Manju ^b   Haugland, Richard A ^b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; ANIMAL SPECIES; BACTERIAL LOAD; CELL SURFACES; DNA TARGETS; ENVIRONMENTAL WATER; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; FECAL DNA; FECAL POLLUTION; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMAN FECAL; HUMAN FECAL POLLUTION; INTERNAL AMPLIFICATION; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; PRIMARY EFFLUENT; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; QUANTITATIVE PCR; REAL-TIME PCR ASSAY; RRNA GENES; WASTEWATER SAMPLES;

AMPLIFICATION; CELL MEMBRANES; DNA; EFFLUENTS; GENES; HEALTH RISKS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; RISK PERCEPTION; SEWAGE; WASTEWATER; WATER POLLUTION;

ASSAYS;

RIBOSOME RNA;

BIOASSAY; FECAL COLIFORM; FECES; GENETIC MARKER; HEALTH RISK; INHIBITOR; POLLUTION MONITORING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEWAGE; WATER POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTEROIDALES; BACTEROIDES THETAIOTAOMICRON; CELL SURFACE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DNA EXTRACTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FECES MICROFLORA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC MARKER; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN FECAL POLLUTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLLUTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEWAGE; WASTE WATER; WATER SAMPLING;

ANIMALS; BACTEROIDETES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FECES; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEWAGE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDALES;

EID: 69449090107     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00305-09     Document Type: Article

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