Relative decay of bacteroidales microbial source tracking markers and cultivated escherichia coli in freshwater microcosms

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3255-3262

  Dick, Linda K ^a   Stelzer, Erin A ^b   Bertke, Erin E ^b   Fong, Denise L ^a   Stoeckel, Donald M ^b,c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c Don Stoeckel Environmen tal   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; CONSTRAINED CONDITIONS; DECAY CURVES; DECAY RATE; E. COLI; FECAL CONTAMINATION; FECAL INDICATOR BACTERIA; HUMAN IMPACT; LOG REDUCTIONS; MICROBIAL SOURCE TRACKING; QUANTITATIVE PCR; RIVER WATER; SEDIMENT EXPOSURE;

CONTAMINATION; DECAY (ORGANIC); ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEALTH RISKS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TARGETS; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY;

WATER POLLUTION;

FRESH WATER; RNA 16S;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FECES; GENETIC MARKER; HEALTH RISK; MICROCOSM; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDATION; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; BACTEROIDETES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; SUNLIGHT; TEMPERATURE; TIME; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER SUPPLY;

BACTEROIDETES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRESH WATER; HUMANS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SUNLIGHT; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER SUPPLY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDALES; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77952247779     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02636-09     Document Type: Article

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